English Words Starting With O

• old goat

  nounC1
  /ˈəʊld ˈɡəʊt/A literal older male goat.
• old gold

  nounLow
  /ˌəʊld ˈɡəʊld/A colour, a muted or dull yellowish-gold, like that of aged gold.
• old growth

  nounC2
  /ˈəʊld ˌɡrəʊθ/A forest or area of trees that has attained great age without significant disturbance, characterized by large, old trees and a complex ecosystem.
• old guard

  nounC1
  /ˌəʊld ˈɡɑːd/The conservative or traditionalist members of an organization, party, or institution who resist change.
• old guardism

  nounLow
  /ˌəʊld ˈɡɑːd.ɪ.zəm/Adherence to the traditional, conservative, and established principles or methods of an organization, group, or ideology, often resisting change.
• old hand

  nounC1
  /ˌəʊld ˈhænd/A person who is very experienced or skilled at something.
• old harry

  nounC2 (Very Low Frequency - Archaic/Idiomatic)
  /ˌəʊld ˈhæri/A euphemistic name for the Devil.
• old high german

  nounC1
  /ˌəʊld ˌhaɪ ˈdʒɜː.mən/The earliest recorded stage of the German language, spoken from roughly 500 to 1050 AD.
• old icelandic

  nounLow
  /ˌəʊld aɪsˈlændɪk/An extinct North Germanic language, the medieval predecessor of modern Icelandic, spoken from approximately the 9th to the 16th centuries in Iceland and its settlements. It is the language in which the Icelandic sagas were written.
• old identity

  nounC1/C2
  /ˌəʊld aɪˈden.tə.ti/A person who is a well-known, long-standing member of a particular community or place.
• old ionic

  nounA1
  /əʊld/Having lived or existed for a long time; no longer young or new.
• old iranian

  nounC1
  /ˌəʊld ɪˈreɪ.ni.ən/A branch of the Indo-Iranian languages spoken in ancient times on the Iranian Plateau and surrounding regions, forming the earliest stage of the Iranian language family.
• old irish

  nounLow
  /ˌəʊld ˈaɪ.rɪʃ/The earliest attested form of the Goidelic (Gaelic) branch of the Celtic languages, spoken in Ireland from roughly the 6th to the 10th centuries AD.
• old ironsides

  nounC2
  /ˌəʊld ˈaɪən.saɪdz/The nickname for the USS Constitution, a historic American warship launched in 1797.
• old italian

  nounA1
  /əʊld/having existed for a long time; not young or new
• old kingdom

  nounC1
  /ˌəʊld ˈkɪŋ.dəm/A major historical period, most famously the first of three great eras of Ancient Egyptian history (c. 2686–2181 BCE), characterized by the building of monumental pyramids.
• old lady

  nounC1
  /ˌəʊld ˈleɪdi/An informal term referring to an elderly woman.
• old lady of threadneedle street

  nounC2
  /ˌəʊld ˌleɪdi əv ˌθredˈniːdəl striːt/A personification and nickname for the Bank of England.
• old latin

  nounC2
  /ˌəʊld ˈlæt.ɪn/The early stage of the Latin language, used from the earliest inscriptions until around 75 BC, before Classical Latin.
• old line state

  nounC1-C2 (Advanced/Very Low Frequency)
  /ˈəʊld ˈlaɪn ˈsteɪt/The official nickname of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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