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adjective

age-old adj.

Of very long duration

Synonyms: ancient

Having reached a desired or final condition as a result of standing for a period of time; of wines, whiskey, fruit, or cheeses. Note: As a result of having been aged, the product may be said to be mature or ripe (vs. green).

Synonyms: ripened

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Etymology of 'Age-old'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Age-old" Quotes from Famous Books

... it seemed I watched the age-old struggle between might and right, the horrors of man's persecution of man, the agonies of flaming cities, of Death and Shame, of dungeon and torment. I seemed to hear the thunder of conflicting hosts, the groans of dying martyrs, to sense all the sweat and blood, ...

— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol

... Rose returned, half an hour later, this time in the big automobile whose rushing passage stirred whirlwinds of dust on the age-old road, his daughter met ...

— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram

... hair was long and shaggy, and fell in shining dishevelment upon his shoulders. The sensitive beauty of his great eyes, once responsive to every passing humor in Melisse, flashing fun at her laughter, glowing softly in their devotion, was gone. His face was filled with the age-old silence of the forest man. Firmly and yet gently, it repelled whatever of the old things she might have said and done, holding her away from him as if by ...

— The Honor of the Big Snows • James Oliver Curwood

... looked again at the face of the tunnel, drawn by an irresistible fascination. It had advanced a full quarter of a mile. Like fog before a cloud-piercing searchlight, the age-old rock was dissolving before the ray. At this rate America's doom would be sealed in a week. And I, alone among these thousands, was helpless to ...

— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... rays. The reaction in his body. He had sought immortality in the door to outer space and had found a monster waiting for him. A force that had changed his glands, grown the shaggy fur on his body. Glands that had warped his mind. Opened an age-old ...

— The Monster • S. M. Tenneshaw

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