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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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old-timer

US pronunciation

American soundold timer

oldtimer

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

old - timer -> old timer

Myanmar meaning

လူဟောင်း။

Full entry

old /ǝƱld / adj (-er, -est)

❍ ELDER¹
၁။ အရွယ်ရှိသော။ သက်တမ်းရှိသော။ He's forty years old. ❍ At fifteen years old he left school. ❍ How old is this building? ❍ A seven-year-old (ie A child who is seven years of age) should be able to read. ❍ AGE n
၂။ အိုသော။ ကြီးရင့် သော။ Old people are not as active as young people. ❍ He's too old for you to marry. ❍ What will she do when she is/gets/grows old?
၃။ (က) ရှေး။ ရှေးဟောင်း။ ဟောင်း [သော]။ old customs/beliefs/habits ❍ old clothes/cars/houses ❍ the same old excuses ❍ This carpet's getting pretty old now. (ခ) ရှေး။ old religious practices ❍ Things were different in the old days.
၄။ ဟောင်း။ an old friend of mine (ie one I have known for a long time, but not necessarily old in years) ❍ We're old rivals (ie We have been rivals for a long time).
၅။ ယခင်က။ ရှေးက။ ဟောင်း။ in my old job ❍ at my old school ❍ I prefer the chair in its old place. ❍ We had a larger garden at our old house.
၆။ (infml or joc ) (ရင်းနှီးကြောင်းပြ ပုဒ်အဖြစ်) ကြီး။ Dear old John! ❍ Good old Angela! ❍ You're a funny old thing! ❍ The old legs aren't as strong as they used to be.
၇။ (infml ) (လေးနက်စေရန်သုံးသောပုဒ်)။ Any old thing (ie Anything whatever) will do.
❏ any old how [IDM ] (infml ) ဖြစ်ကတတ်ဆန်း။ The books were scattered round the room any old how.
❏ for old times' sake [IDM ] ရှေးဖြစ်ဟောင်း ပြန်ပြောင်း သတိရသောအားဖြင့်။
❏ the good/bad old days [IDM ] ရှေးဖြစ်ဟောင်း အကောင်း၊ အဆိုး။ We often meet to talk about the good old days at school.
❏ of old [IDM ] ရှေးက။ ရှေးကတည်းက။ in days of old ❍ We know him of old (ie have known him for a long time and so know him well).
❏ the old n [pl v ] သက်ကြီးရွယ်အို။ The old feel the cold weather more than the young.
❏ old age n [U] ကျရွယ်။ ဇရာဒုဗ္ဗလ။ He's getting very bad-tempered in his old age. ❍ Old age can bring many problems.
❏ old-age pension n (Brit ) သက်ပြည့်ပင်စင်။
❏ old-age pensioner n (abbr OAP ) (also pensioner, senior citizen ) ပင်စင်စား။ အငြိမ်းစား။
❏ (as) old as the hills [IDM ] ဘိုးတော်ဘုရား လက်ထက်က။ This dress is as old as the hills.
❏ old boy n (fem old girl )
၁။ ကျောင်းသားဟောင်း။ ကျောင်းသူဟောင်း။ an old boys' reunion.
၂။ old boy/girl (infml ) အဘိုးကြီး။ အဘွားကြီး။ the old girl who lives next door.
❏ old boy, chap, man etc [IDM ] (dated infml ) ကိုယ့်လူ။ ငါ့လူ။ Excuse me, old man, can I borrow your newspaper?
❏ the old boy network [IDM ] (Brit infml ) နာမည်ကြီး ကိုယ်ပိုင်ကျောင်းများမှ ကျောင်းသား ဟောင်းများ အချင်းချင်း ကူညီရိုင်းပင်းကြသည့် ဓလေ့။
❏ the old country n [sing] ဇာတိနိုင်ငံ။ အမိနိုင်ငံ။
❏ Old English n [U] = ANGLO-SAXON ၃
❏ (be) old enough to be sb's father/ mother [IDM ] မင့် အဖေလောက်ကြီး။ မင့် အမေ လောက်ကြီး။ You can't marry him—he's old enough to be your father!
❏ (be) old enough to know better [IDM ] ဒီလောက်တော့ အသိတရားရှိဖို့ ကောင်းတယ်။ Have you been drawing on the walls? I thought you were old enough to know better.
❏ old-established adj အဓွန့်ရှည်ခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်သော။ old-established customs/ beliefs/ companies.
❏ old-fashioned adj (often derog )
၁။ ခေတ်နောက်ကျသော။ ခေတ်မမီသော။ old-fashioned clothes/styles.
၂။ ရှေးဆန်သော။ ခေတ်အလိုကို မလိုက်လျောသော။ My aunt is very old-fashioned. ❍ She gave me an old-fashioned look (ie one expressing disapproval).
❏ old flame n ရည်းစားဟောင်း။ She met one of her old flames at the party.
❏ the old guard n [Gp] ရှေးရိုးစွဲလူစု။
❏ old hand n ~ (at sth/doing sth) သမ္ဘာရင့်သူ။ She's an old hand at dealing with the press.
❏ old hat [IDM ] (infml derog ) ခုနစ်ဆွေး ရှစ်ဆွေးကြီး။ His ideas are all terribly old hat.
❏ (have) an old head on young shoulders [IDM ] အသက်အရွယ်နှင့် မလိုက်အောင် ရင့်ကျက်သူ။
❏ oldie /'ǝƱldi / n (infml ) ခုနစ်ဆွေးရှစ်ဆွေး။ ခုနစ်အို ရှစ်အို။ This record is a real oldie.
❏ oldish adj ခပ်ဟောင်းဟောင်း၊ ခပ်အိုအို။
❏ old lag n (Brit infml ) ထောင်ပျော်။ ထောင်မင်းသား။
❏ old maid n (derog ) အပျိုဟိုင်း။
❏ old-maidish adj (derog ) ကညာစစ်သော။
❏ old man n (infml ) အဘိုးကြီး (သို့) အိမ်က အဘိုးကြီး။ How's your old man (eg your husband) these days?
❏ old master n (က) ၁၃-ရာစုမှ ၁၇-ရာစုကာလ အတွင်း ဥရောပတွင် ပေါ်ပေါက်ခဲ့သော ပန်းချီ အကျော်အမော်။ (ခ) ယင်းပန်းချီကျော်၏ ပန်းချီကား။
❏ Old Nick n (dated infml joc ) နတ်ဆိုး။ မာရ်နတ်။
❏ old people's home (also old folks' home ) n (infml ) ဘိုးဘွားရိပ်သာ။ His mother is in an old folks' home.
❏ old school tie n (esp Brit )
၁။ ကျောင်းတစ်ကျောင်းတွင် အစဉ်အလာအရ သတ်မှတ်ထားသည့် လည်စည်း(နက်ကတိုင်) အဆင်။
၂။ ကျောင်းနေဖက် အချင်းချင်း သံယောဇဉ်ကြီးမှု၊ ဘက်လိုက်မှု စသည်။
❏ old stager n (infml ) အံတိုနေသူ။
❏ old-style adj ရှေးရိုး။ သမားရိုးကျ။ an old-style Conservative politician.
❏ old sweat n (Brit infml ) ရဲဘော်ဟောင်းကြီး။
❏ the Old Testament n [sing] (ခရစ်ယာန်) ဓမ္မဟောင်း ကျမ်း။ Compare THE NEW TESTAMENT
❏ old-time adj ရှေးရိုး။ old-time dancing.
❏ old-timer n လူဟောင်း။
❏ an old wives' tale [IDM ] ယုံတမ်းစကား။
❏ old woman n (infml )
၁။ (ဇနီး၊ မိခင်) အမေကြီး၊ အဘွားကြီး။
၂။ (derog ) သုံးတောင်ဝတ် ယောကျ်ား ရင့်မာကြီး။
❏ the Old World n [sing] ဥရောပ၊ အာရှ၊ အာဖရိက။ Compare THE NEW WORLD
❏ old-world adj ရှေးခေတ်။ a cottage with old-world charm.
❏ one of the old school [IDM ] ရှေးဆန်သူ။

More examples

[how old] : She didn’t mention how old her children were.
‘How old are you?’ ‘I’m 5 years old.’
[old enough to do something] : He’s not old enough to see this film.
[too old to do something] : Aren’t you too old to play with dolls?
He’s 26 now, which is quite old in this sport.
[the oldest] : He’s the oldest boy in his class.
[older than] : I’m older than my brother.
A lot of old people live alone.
Trees are the oldest living things on the planet.
[get/grow old] : I hope I’ll still be able to play golf when I get old.
There’s an old belief that animals can predict earthquakes.
Her sewing machine’s really old – it was her mother’s.
Why do you keep all these old newspapers?
That old car of theirs is getting so unreliable.
It was nice to get back into my old routine.
‘Thy’ is an old way of saying ‘your’.
Look at all these old machines!
The old motorway to Glasgow only had two lanes.
A tour of Warsaw’s picturesque Old Town
A poem written in Old English
How is my old buddy Jim?
[dear old] : Dear old Aunty Emily – what would we do without her?
Being the houseguest having to sleep on the couch was getting old very quickly.

Synonyms

aged, elderly, older, mature, getting on, not getting any younger, a single time, aboriginal, age-old, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, at one time, away back, back when, broken down, bucket of bolts, but once, bygone, cast-off, childhood, clunker, constant, continuing, crumbling, dated, debilitated, decayed, decrepit, deep-rooted, demode, done, early, enduring, enfeebled, erstwhile, established, exhausted, experienced, familiar, firm, former, fossil, from the past, from way back, geriatric, gray, gray-haired, grizzled, hackneyed, hardened, hoary, immemorial, impaired, in old days, in the old days, in the olden days, in times gone by, in times past, inactive, infirm, inveterate, jalopy, junker, last, late, lifelong, long ago, long forgotten, long-established, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, matured, moth-eaten, not young, obsolete, of long standing, of old, of yore, old-fashioned, old-time, olden, oldfangled, oldish, on its last legs, on occasion, on one occasion, once, once only, once upon a time, one time before, one time previously, one-time, onetime, only one time, original, other, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, over the hill, passÃ©, past, past it, past one's prime, past your prime, perennial, perpetual, practiced, previous, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, quondam, relic, remote, rusty, seasoned, senile, senior, skilled, solid, sometime, stale, staying, steady, superannuated, this time, time was, time-honored, time-worn, timeworn, tired, traditional, unfashionable, unoriginal, venerable, versed, veteran, vintage, wasted, whilom, worn-out

Antonyms

a short time ago, broken, changeable, contemporary, current, fresh, freshly, green, in recent times, inexperienced, innovation, intermittent, interrupted, just now, late, lately, modern, modernism, modernization, new, not long ago, of late, present, recent, soft, unstable, unsteady, untrustworthy, up-to-date, wavering, weak, young, youthful

Cross references

aged elderly older mature getting on not getting any younger a single time aboriginal age-old along in years ancient antediluvian antiquated antique archaic at one time away back back when broken down bucket of bolts but once bygone cast-off childhood clunker constant continuing crumbling

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