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  • adjective superlative form of old: most old.

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Examples

  • It's got some very old things (the oldest is a 4000 year old cuniform tablet, plus lots of illuminated manuscripts), some very beautiful things, and some very interesting things.

    Archive 2008-08-01 lili 2008

  • It's got some very old things (the oldest is a 4000 year old cuniform tablet, plus lots of illuminated manuscripts), some very beautiful things, and some very interesting things.

    FREE melbourne lili 2008

  • DAMASCUS Reuters - French archaeologists say they have excavated an 11,000-year-old wall painting in red, black and white in northern Syria which they describe as the oldest in the world, although it resembles a modern work.

    World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria William Harryman 2007

  • And you must take into consideration the fact that we have not the slightest proof that these which we call the oldest beds are really so: I repeat, we have not the slightest proof of it.

    Essays 2007

  • "TIME" magazine asks, "How apes became human: What a new discovery tells scientists about what it calls our oldest ancestors and how they stood on two legs and made an evolutionary leap," on the cover.

    CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2001 2001

  • But at last, when the playwright had ridiculed and denounced what he called the oldest and tiredest convention in the world for long enough, the play seemed to turn on a pivot, and the pivot was the cradle.

    Married Life The True Romance May Edginton 1920

  • And you must take into consideration the fact that we have not the slightest proof that these which we call the oldest beds are really so: I repeat, we have not the slightest proof of it.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • And you must take into consideration the fact that we have not the slightest proof that these which we call the oldest beds are really so: I repeat, we have not the slightest proof of it.

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • During a recent reinvestigation of the 1970 murder of black political leader Leon Jordan, Kansas City police solved another murder - what they called the oldest cold case closed to date.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • During a recent reinvestigation of the 1970 murder of black political leader Leon Jordan, Kansas City police solved another murder what they called the oldest cold case closed to date.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

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