Oldie

Definition

old /ǝƱld / adj (-er, -est) ❍ ELDER 1 ၁။ အရြယ္ရိွေသာ။ သက္တမ္းရိွေသာ။ 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။ အိုေသာ။ ႀကီးရင့္ ေသာ။ 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) ေရွး။ ေရွးေဟာင္း။ ေဟာင္း [ေသာ]။ old customs/beliefs/habits ❍ old clothes/cars/houses ❍ the same old excuses ❍ This carpet's getting pretty old now. (ခ) ေရွး။ old religious practices ❍ Things were different in the old days. ၄။ ေဟာင္း။ 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။ ယခင္က။ ေရွးက။ ေဟာင္း။ 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 ) (ရင္းႏီွးေၾကာင္းျပ ပုဒ္အျဖစ္) ႀကီး။ 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 ) (ေလးနက္ေစရန္သံုးေသာပုဒ္)။ Any old thing (ie Anything whatever) will do. ❏ any old how [ IDM ] ( infml ) ျဖစ္ကတတ္ဆန္း။ The books were scattered round the room any old how. ❏ for old times' sake [ IDM ] ေရွးျဖစ္ေဟာင္း ျပန္ေျပာင္း သတိရေသာအားျဖင့္။ ❏ the good/bad old days [ IDM ] ေရွးျဖစ္ေဟာင္း အေကာင္း၊ အဆိုး။ We often meet to talk about the good old days at school. ❏ of old [ IDM ] ေရွးက။ ေရွးကတည္းက။ 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 ] သက္ႀကီးရြယ္အို။ The old feel the cold weather more than the young. ❏ old age n [U] က်ရြယ္။ ဇရာဒုဗၺလ။ He's getting very bad-tempered in his old age. ❍ Old age can bring many problems. ❏ old-age pension n ( Brit ) သက္ျပည့္ပင္စင္။ ❏ old-age pensioner n ( abbr OAP ) (also pensioner, senior citizen ) ပင္စင္စား။ အၿငိမ္းစား။ ❏ (as) old as the hills [ IDM ] ဘိုးေတာ္ဘုရား လက္ထက္က။ This dress is as old as the hills. ❏ old boy n ( fem old girl ) ၁။ ေက်ာင္းသားေဟာင္း။ ေက်ာင္းသူေဟာင္း။ an old boys' reunion. ၂။ old boy/girl ( infml ) အဘိုးႀကီး။ အဘြားႀကီး။ the old girl who lives next door. ❏ old boy, chap, man etc [ IDM ] ( dated infml ) ကိုယ့္လူ။ ငါ့လူ။ Excuse me, old man, can I borrow your newspaper? ❏ the old boy network [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) နာမည္ႀကီး ကိုယ္ပိုင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ားမွ ေက်ာင္းသား ေဟာင္းမ်ား အခ်င္းခ်င္း ကူညီ႐ိုင္းပင္းၾကသည့္ ဓေလ့။ ❏ the old country n [sing] ဇာတိႏိုင္ငံ။ အမိႏိုင္ငံ။ ❏ Old English n [U] = ANGLO-SAXON ၃ ❏ (be) old enough to be sb's father/ mother [ IDM ] မင့္ အေဖေလာက္ႀကီး။ မင့္ အေမ ေလာက္ႀကီး။ You can't marry him—he's old enough to be your father! ❏ (be) old enough to know better [ IDM ] ဒီေလာက္ေတာ့ အသိတရားရိွဖို႔ ေကာင္းတယ္။ Have you been drawing on the walls? I thought you were old enough to know better. ❏ old-established adj အဓြန္႔ရွည္ခဲ့ၿပီျဖစ္ေသာ။ old-established customs/ beliefs/ companies. ❏ old-fashioned adj ( often derog ) ၁။ ေခတ္ေနာက္က်ေသာ။ ေခတ္မမီေသာ။ old-fashioned clothes/styles. ၂။ ေရွးဆန္ေသာ။ ေခတ္အလိုကို မလိုက္ေလ်ာေသာ။ My aunt is very old-fashioned. ❍ She gave me an old-fashioned look (ie one expressing disapproval). ❏ old flame n ရည္းစားေဟာင္း။ She met one of her old flames at the party. ❏ the old guard n [Gp] ေရွး႐ိုးစြဲလူစု။ ❏ old hand n ~ (at sth/doing sth) သမ႓ာရင့္သူ။ She's an old hand at dealing with the press. ❏ old hat [ IDM ] ( infml derog ) ခုနစ္ေဆြး ရွစ္ေဆြးႀကီး။ His ideas are all terribly old hat. ❏ (have) an old head on young shoulders [ IDM ] အသက္အရြယ္ႏွင့္ မလိုက္ေအာင္ ရင့္က်က္သူ။ ❏ oldie /'ǝƱldi / n ( infml ) ခုနစ္ေဆြးရွစ္ေဆြး။ ခုနစ္အို ရွစ္အို။ This record is a real oldie. ❏ oldish adj ခပ္ေဟာင္းေဟာင္း၊ ခပ္အိုအို။ ❏ old lag n ( Brit infml ) ေထာင္ေပ်ာ္။ ေထာင္မင္းသား။ ❏ old maid n ( derog ) အပ်ဳိဟိုင္း။ ❏ old-maidish adj ( derog ) ကညာစစ္ေသာ။ ❏ old man n ( infml ) အဘိုးႀကီး (သို႔) အိမ္က အဘိုးႀကီး။ How's your old man (eg your husband) these days? ❏ old master n (က) ၁၃-ရာစုမွ ၁၇-ရာစုကာလ အတြင္း ဥေရာပတြင္ ေပၚေပါက္ခဲ့ေသာ ပန္းခ်ီ အေက်ာ္အေမာ္။ (ခ) ယင္းပန္းခ်ီေက်ာ္၏ ပန္းခ်ီကား။ ❏ Old Nick n ( dated infml joc ) နတ္ဆိုး။ မာရ္နတ္။ ❏ old people's home (also old folks' home ) n ( infml ) ဘိုးဘြားရိပ္သာ။ His mother is in an old folks' home. ❏ old school tie n ( esp Brit ) ၁။ ေက်ာင္းတစ္ေက်ာင္းတြင္ အစဥ္အလာအရ သတ္မွတ္ထားသည့္ လည္စည္း(နက္ကတိုင္) အဆင္။ ၂။ ေက်ာင္းေနဖက္ အခ်င္းခ်င္း သံေယာဇဥ္ႀကီးမႈ၊ ဘက္လိုက္မႈ စသည္။ ❏ old stager n ( infml ) အံတိုေနသူ။ ❏ old-style adj ေရွး႐ိုး။ သမား႐ိုးက်။ an old-style Conservative politician. ❏ old sweat n ( Brit infml ) ရဲေဘာ္ေဟာင္းႀကီး။ ❏ the Old Testament n [sing] (ခရစ္ယာန္) ဓမၼေဟာင္း က်မ္း။ Compare THE NEW TESTAMENT ❏ old-time adj ေရွး႐ိုး။ old-time dancing. ❏ old-timer n လူေဟာင္း။ ❏ an old wives' tale [ IDM ] ယံုတမ္းစကား။ ❏ old woman n ( infml ) ၁။ (ဇနီး၊ မိခင္) အေမႀကီး၊ အဘြားႀကီး။ ၂။ ( derog ) သံုးေတာင္ဝတ္ ေယာက်္ား ရင့္မာႀကီး။ ❏ the Old World n [sing] ဥေရာပ၊ အာရွ၊ အာဖရိက။ Compare THE NEW WORLD ❏ old-world adj ေရွးေခတ္။ a cottage with old-world charm. ❏ one of the old school [ IDM ] ေရွးဆန္သူ။

Examples

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