auld
UK/əʊld//oʊld/
auld adjective: old.
Adjective
auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)
- Old.
- To prepare for the burning bowl, each person writes on slips of paper those negative traits or situations they would like to be rid of in the year to come. Examples might be, […] “Proclivity for attracting Messrs. Wrong”—anything that needs to go in the auld acquaintance category and be never...2004, Victoria Moran, “December 27: The Burning Bowl”, in Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit, [San Francisco, Calif.]: HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 428
Proper noun capitalized: Auld
Auld (plural Aulds)
- A surname from Scots.
Examples of auld in a sentence
- Come, my auld, towzy, trusty friend; What gars ye look sae douth an' wae?
- Which grotesque auld hing-oot will the shrivelled post-menopausal slag want tae shaft?
- Instead I drank a can of Export and quietly talked fitba with the auld man.
Synonyms of auld
Forms of auld
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | aulder |
| superlative | auldest |
| alternative form | aud |
| alternative form | aul |
| alternative form | oul |
| alternative form | oul' |
| alternative form | ould |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Aulds |
| alternative form | Aud |
Origin of auld
From Scots auld or from Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (“old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown up; old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, nourished, matured”). Compare cognate Latin altus (“nourished, raised, grown; tall”). Doublet of old.
From Scots auld (“old”). Compare the English surname Old.
Phrases with auld
Words that rhyme with auld
Questions about auld
- What does auld mean?
- Auld means old.
- What part of speech is auld?
- Auld can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce auld?
- Auld is pronounced /oʊld/ (US).
Words near auld in the dictionary
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