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oldest — elder, eldest, older, oldest 1. Elder and eldest mean the same as older and oldest but they are much narrower in their range of use, being applicable only to people and only as nouns or attributive adjectives (before nouns). You can say his elder … Modern English usage
oldest — See elder, eldest, older, oldest See older, oldest … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
Oldest — Old Old, a. [Compar. {Older}; superl. {Oldest}.] [OE. old, ald, AS. ald, eald; akin to D. oud, OS. ald, OFries. ald, old, G. alt, Goth. alpeis, and also to Goth. alan to grow up, Icel. ala to bear, produce, bring up, L. alere to nourish. Cf.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
oldest — adj. Oldest is used with these nouns: ↑daughter, ↑son … Collocations dictionary
Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse — General information Town or city 14 St. Georges Street St. Augustine, Florida Country … Wikipedia
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (TV film) — Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is a 1994 two part Television film based on the 1989 novel by Allan Gurganus. Starring Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Cicely Tyson and Anne Bancroft. Plot summary On her 100th birthday, Lucy Honicut… … Wikipedia
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All — is a 1989 first novel by Allan Gurganus which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for eight months. It won the Sue Kaufman Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, was a main selection of the Book of the Month Club, and sold… … Wikipedia
Oldest city — could refer to: Historical urban community sizes List of oldest continuously inhabited cities This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to … Wikipedia
oldest trick in the book — The oldest trick in the book is a well known way of deceiving someone, though still effective … The small dictionary of idiomes
Oldest language — is a term used informally for various concepts: referring to the emergence of language itself in human evolution origin of language proto language, a stage before the emergence of language proper mythical origins of language referring to a Proto… … Wikipedia
