Usually means: Old, especially in Scottish dialect.
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  1. auld: Merriam-Webster
  2. auld: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. auld: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. auld: Collins English Dictionary
  5. auld: Vocabulary.com
  6. Auld, auld: Wordnik
  7. Auld, auld: Wiktionary
  8. auld: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. auld: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Auld, auld: Dictionary.com
  11. Auld: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Auld: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. auld: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. auld: Rhymezone
  15. Auld: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. auld: FreeDictionary.org
  17. auld: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. auld: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. auld: Merriam-Webster

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  1. AULD: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. auld: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Auld)

▸ adjective:  (archaic, Northern England, Liverpool, Scotland, Ireland) Old.
▸ noun:  A surname from Scots.

Similar:
old, oul', yauld, agley, aboon, Yoong, ulstered, grand, bonnyish, two-double, more...

Opposite:
new, young, modern

Types:
traditional, modern, contemporary, old-fashioned, old-world, more...

Phrases:
Auld Alliance, auld reekie, Auld Licht, Auld Kirk, auld langsyne, more...

Adjectives:
ower, poor, sae, puir, dear, year, little, four, wheen, very, sax



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Similar:
old, oul', yauld, agley, aboon, Yoong, ulstered, grand, bonnyish, two-double, more...

Opposite:
new, young, modern

Types:
traditional, modern, contemporary, old-fashioned, old-world, more...

Phrases:
Auld Alliance, auld reekie, Auld Licht, Auld Kirk, auld langsyne, auld lang syne, Bertie Auld, The Auld Triangle, more...

Adjectives:
ower, poor, sae, puir, dear, year, little, four, wheen, very, sax



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