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oldsome

oldsome adjective: characterised or marked by age.

Adjective

oldsome (comparative more oldsome, superlative most oldsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by age.
    • It almost makes an oldsome woman like me want to dance again as I danced long ago when we were young.1927, The Contemporary Review, volume 131, page 121
    • They took the path that surrounded the Bald, and started to get to the meeting house—not the one on Cragg Hill, but the oldsome barn that used to be Big Gully School.1928, Maristan Chapman, The Happy Mountain, page 220

Forms of oldsome

comparativemore oldsome
superlativemost oldsome

Origin of oldsome

From old + -some.

Questions about oldsome

What does oldsome mean?
Oldsome means characterised or marked by age.
What part of speech is oldsome?
Oldsome is an adjective.

Words near oldsome in the dictionary

  1. oldsightedness
  2. oldskool
  3. Oldsmar
  4. Oldsmobile
  5. Oldsmobiles
  6. oldsome
  7. oldspeak
  8. oldsquaw
  9. oldsquaws
  10. Oldstead
  11. oldster

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