auld

[ awld ]

/ ɔld /

adjective Scot. and North England.

old.

Nearby words

augustus, augustus caesar, auk, auklet, aulard, auld, auld lang syne, auld reekie, aulic, aulic council, aulis

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Auld lang syne” is Scottish-Gaelic for “old long since,” or, more idiomatically, “days gone by” or “time long past.
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Take this verse by famous Scottish poet Robert Burns in his famous Scottish poem “Auld Lang Syne.”
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When she stands by the bedside of a dying Victor McLaglen and sings “Auld Lang Syne,” it is an occasion for real tears.
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New Years means Champagne, “Auld Lang Syne,” and good college football.
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But it was a time for everybody to join hands as we did on formerly Air Force One and sing "Auld Lang Syne."
The Last Ride|The Daily Beast|January 19, 2009|DAILY BEAST
I'm wearing we meet this last time for ever, and I want ye to keep the auld feelings from time to time.
Despair's Last Journey|David Christie Murray
My man's auld, and I have everything to do for mysel', but they canna lay a hand on me.
The Wizard's Son, Vol. 1(of 3)|Margaret Oliphant
I wad na lat ae ill thoucht o' puir Jeemie inside this auld heid o' mine!
Salted With Fire|George MacDonald
Catrine's a good lass enough, and a good-hearted, and lets herself be deaved all day with a runt of an auld wife like me.
David Balfour, Second Part|Robert Louis Stevenson
Nowhere are Auld Reekie's antitheses of new and old more emphasized than in the Cowgate.
Glimpses of Three Coasts|Helen Hunt Jackson

British Dictionary definitions for auld

auld

/ (ɔːld) /

adjective

a Scot word for old

Word Origin for auld

Old English āld

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Word Origin and History for auld

auld

adj.

variant of old that more accurately preserves the Anglo-Saxon vowel. Surviving in northern English and Scottish; distinctly Scottish after late 14c.

auld

adjective Scot. and North England.

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