noun
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old age
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olden days; antiquity
Etymology
Origin of eld
before 1000; Middle English elde, Old English eldo, ieldo, derivative of ( e ) ald old; see world
Vocabulary lists containing eld
Example Sentences
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"Before, this fi eld couldn't fill even one granary," he said.
From Scientific American • Jan. 28, 2011
I believe in the eld theory of supply and demand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Children wandered the twisty alleys and found eld bronze coins and bits of purple glass and stone flagons with handles carved like snakes.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
This central forest was really the vault of the long-forgotten, dank, mouldering, dark, abandoned to the accumulations of eld and decay.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
Tell thou the world, when my bones lie whitening Amid the last homes of youth and eld, That there was once one whose blood ran lightning No eye beheld.
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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