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auld

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Old.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Old.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Scot. & Prov. Eng. Old.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective archaic, Northern England, Liverpudlian old

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective a Scottish word

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Examples

  • "He chose it," she says, "of a very large print, that I might be able to read it when I was _very auld -- forty year auld_; but the bairns pulled the leaves out langsyne."] [Footnote 45: [In writing of his little grandson's earliest lessons, Scott recalls these days in a letter to Lockhart

    Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824

  • He found the phrase auld lang syne "exceedingly expressive" and thought whoever first wrote the poem "heaven inspired."

    Days of Auld Lang What? Peggy Noonan 2010

  • Ah your joking, sorry i thought with the word auld in your username it might be the typical small penis thing jocks have when it comes to fitba

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • The spire of the parish church, known as the auld kirk, commands a view of the square, from which the entrance to the kirkyard would be visible, if it were not hidden by the town-house.

    Auld Licht Idylls 1898

  • The spire of the parish church, known as the auld kirk, commands a view of the square, from which the entrance to the kirk-yard would be visible, if it were not hidden by the town-house.

    Auld Licht Idyls 1898

  • "There's no guid ever cam 'o' ca'in 'things oot o' their ain names," she began, "an" it's my min '' at gien ever ae man was a willain, an 'gien ever ae man had rizzon no to lie quaiet whan he was doon, that man was your father's uncle -- his gran' uncle, that is, the auld captain, as we ca'd him.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • "AULD Robin Gray, sir, deestinctly 'auld' in the song," interrupted Mr. Callender with stern precision; "and I'm thinking he was not so very unfortunate either."

    The Bell-Ringer of Angel's Bret Harte 1869

  • The Reverend John Blackadder, the "auld" minister of

    Hunted and Harried 1859

  • I might be bringing my dad along for a few social pints ... would an 'auld' Sapper be welcome along??

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I might be bringing my dad along for a few social pints ... would an 'auld' Sapper be welcome along??

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. old

equivalents (1)

Other words for 'auld'

  1. old

same context (15)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. -ol
  2. ain
  3. bonnie
  4. bonny
  5. daft
  6. faither
  7. gude
  8. hame
  9. laird
  10. lang
  11. mither
  12. ould
  13. owd
  14. puir
  15. sae

cross-references (3)

Cross-references

  1. auld birkie
  2. auld lang syne
  3. auld wives' tongues

rhymes (21)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. appalled
  2. bald
  3. balled
  4. bawled
  5. called
  6. crawled
  7. drawled
  8. enthralled
  9. hald
  10. hauled
  11. installed
  12. mauled
  13. recalled
  14. scald
  15. scrawled
  16. so-called
  17. sprawled
  18. stalled
  19. uncalled
  20. wald
  21. walled

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  • bilby commented on the word auld

    Scots - old. And thanks WordNET for a really useful definition :-(

    January 3, 2008

  • seanahan commented on the word auld

    I'm typically the defender of WordNet, but that's just absurd.

    January 4, 2008

  • yarb commented on the word auld

    Sheer genius from weirdnet!

    January 5, 2008

  • bilby commented on the word auld

    It's beautiful innit? I'd love to type in something like lambada and see a Weirdnet definition like 'a Foreign word'.

    January 5, 2008

  • bilby commented on the word auld

    Seeing as this song is so widely famous, and yet so poorly understood in its full form, allow me the liberty to post the entire lyrics and glossary here. Many thanks to hogmanay.net for this version of the Robert Burns classic, Auld Lang Syne.

    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

    And never brought to mind?

    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

    And auld lang syne?

    CHORUS:

    For auld lang syne, my dear,

    For auld lang syne,

    We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,

    For auld lang syne!

    And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,

    And surely I'll be mine,

    And we'll tak a cup o kindness yet,

    For auld lang syne!

    We twa hae run about the braes,

    And pou'd the gowans fine,

    But we've wander'd monie a weary fit,

    Sin auld lang syne.

    We twa hae paidl'd in the burn

    Frae morning sun till dine,

    But seas between us braid hae roar'd

    Sin auld lang syne.

    And there's a hand my trusty fiere,

    And gie's a hand o thine,

    And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught,

    For auld lang syne

    Meanings

    auld lang syne - times gone by

    be - pay for

    braes - hills

    braid - broad

    burn - stream

    dine - dinner time

    fiere - friend

    fit - foot

    gowans - daisies

    guid-willie waught - goodwill drink

    monie - many

    morning sun - noon

    paidl't - paddled

    pint-stowp - pint tankard

    pou'd - pulled

    twa - two

    January 28, 2009

  • xundra commented on the word auld

    Wait, besides "a Scottish word", all they had was "not new"? I think I looked up a word for this situation earlier today... >.>

    August 14, 2009