1 : belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"
2 : advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"
3 : belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
4 : (used informally especially for emphasis) real or genuine; "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"
5 : lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"
6 : just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"
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1 : the first of two or the first mentioned of two
