age-old
ancient; from time immemorial: an age-old tradition.
Origin of age-old
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How to use age-old in a sentence
I meant the age-old motivator, fear—stoking fear in their base of what a Republican Senate would look like.
It promises to be a parsimonious solution to the age-old problem of preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Male Birth Control, Without Condoms, Will Be Here by 2017 | Samantha Allen | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFinally, some solid facts in the age-old debate: Does marriage make you live longer or does it just seem longer?
P.J. on the Owl-Monkey Project and the Science of Chick Flicks | P. J. O’Rourke | April 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is called “being offended,” and it is an age-old Russian national pastime, both on an individual level and more broadly.
You, and millions like you, may have recently discovered meditation, an age-old practice dating back to the 1st millenium BCE.
These 7 iPhone Apps for Meditation Make Us Want To Inhale, Exhale, Inhale, Exhale | Courtney Boyd Myers | January 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
It was in the stifling of all the youth and ambition of my nature by the baleful weight of her age-old weariness of intellect.
The Wasted Generation | Owen JohnsonMeanwhile, journeying through this age-old land, a snatch of verse goes running through my head.
Polly the Pagan | Isabel AndersonA proud people, yet a people who would turn and run without thought, in a panic of age-old fear.
The Link | Alan Edward NourseIt was the age-old tragic comedy of a false friend's treachery and a woman's weakness; a duel, and the wrong man slain.
The Master of Appleby | Francis Lynde"It's the age-old story," he went on, again sweeping the lock of hair from before his flashing glance.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for age-old
very old or of long duration; ancient
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