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Plural of old

regular plural

The plural of old is olds.

Forms of old

Singularold /əʊld/
Pluralolds
Countablecountable and uncountable

Olds in a sentence

  • I'm not letting any olds wreck my good time today.
  • I had to sneak out to meet my girlfriend and tell the olds I was going to the library.
  • Olds and Milner constructed new experiments that allowed the rats to press a lever.2009, Pat Williams, Jim Denney, What Are You Living For?: Investing Your Life in What Matter's Most, Gospel Light Publications, page 86. From the entry pleasure oneself
  • I told you we have to stop talking like thirteen year olds because it's totes inappropes,” she grinned.2015 March 31, Devon Hartford, Painless: The Story of Samantha Smith #3, volume 3, Devon Hartford, →ISBN. From the entry inappropes
  • I mean how many eighteen year olds feel ready to settle down and marry this day and age?2012, Jillian Amodio, Diaries of a Teenage Bride, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry beyond one's years

Meaning of old

  1. adjective Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
  2. adjective Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
  3. adjective Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.

Full definition of old

Questions about the plural of old

What is the plural of old?
The plural of old is olds.
Is old countable?
Old is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: old (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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