"old" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

old adjetivo

old + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 2012

old man • old brother • old friend • old woman • old age • old sister • old son • old one • old boy • old lady • old song • old adult • ...

verbo + old

Kolokacji: 18

grow old • look old • feel old • turn old • get older • ...

adverbio + old

Kolokacji: 33

slightly older • far older • barely old • somewhat older • considerably older • ...

Kolokacji: 9

Grup znaczeniowych: 7

(1) slightly, somewhat, pretty, fairly

Kolokacji: 4

Kolokacji: 16

(3) barely, hardly, scarcely

Kolokacji: 3

(4) considerably, substantially

Kolokacji: 2

(5) especially, particularly, generally

Kolokacji: 3

(6) significantly, mainly

Kolokacji: 2

Kolokacji: 3

1. infinitely old = nieskończenie stary infinitely old

2. oldest continuously = najstarszy ciągle oldest continuously

3. immeasurably old = niezmiernie stary immeasurably old

The ruined gray stone castle before which Ussmak had halted his landcruiser seemed to him immeasurably old.
It must be immeasurably old, I thought, and alien, to speak of one moon instead of four!
He had long, unkempt white hair; he seemed immeasurably old.
Everything was sod, drystone and slate, immeasurably old, entirely inviting - the affectionate grandfather of every village we had ever known.
He seemed immeasurably old to Caroline; yet, paradoxically, he never aged.
Her mother had told her it was immeasurably old, perhaps even of Terran origin.
But whatever fueled it was immeasurably old, and huge.
This led him to the conclusion that the Earth was immeasurably old and could not possibly fit within the limits of the inferences from the Bible.
He was immeasurably old; a skull draped in parchment; something that should have been embalmed rather than talking.
She looked immeasurably old and tough, but when she glanced up her eyes were dark with worry.

old + preposición

Kolokacji: 17

old at • old for • old with • old by • old in • ...

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