| 单词 | world-old |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworld-old world-old adj. [compare German weltalt (early 19th cent., poetic, now rare)] ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > ancient or of early origin oldeOE olden daysa1400 for-oldc1400 ancient1475 (as) old as Adama1599 antiquary1599 high1601 primal1604 hoary1609 grandeval1650 Noachal1661 patriarchal1806 (as) old as the hills1819 world-old1837 eld1854 age-old1860 far-back1869 Noachian1874 pornial1883 1837 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 3/2 Let him but paint it in its actual truth, as it swims there, in such environment; world-old, yet new, and never ending. 1875 J. R. Lowell Wordsworth in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 357 The world-old question of matter and form. 1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. i. 307 It was the world-old war between Freedom and Tyranny. 1951 H. C. Goddard Meaning of Shakespeare xxix. 549 Shakespeare has over and over indicated his adherence to the world-old view that age..coupled with a good life, brings insight and truth. < as lemmas |
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