how to pronounce old

/əʊld/

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old is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of old in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… as an 18 year old still in education i'm …”

meaning of old

Old means of or belonging to the past.

old frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word old occurs in english on average 546.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics old 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 old can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;