Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Old; ancient.

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

  • adjective obsolete Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.

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  • adjective obsolete venerable from antiquity; ancient; old

Etymologies

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Latin vetustus old, ancient.

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