how to pronounce olds

/ˈoʊldz/

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olds is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of olds in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… get 12 to 18 year olds vaccinated to …”

meanings of olds

name:

A city in Iowa.
A surname.
A town in Alberta, Canada.

noun:

Parents.
An Oldsmobile.
Information that is no longer new.

olds frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word olds occurs in english on average 5.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics olds can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that olds can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;

2) transport and travel;