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auld

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Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/oʊld/(US)
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/oʊld/(US) · /əʊld/(UK) · /ɑːld/ · /aːʊl/

Definition of auld

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (Ireland, Scotland)Old.
    “To prepare for the burning bowl, each person writes on slips of paper those negative traits or situations they would like to be rid of in the year to come. Examples might be, […] “Proclivity for attracting Messrs. Wrong”—anything that needs to go in the auld acquaintance category and be never brought to mind.”
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adj

  1. (Ireland, Scotland)Old.
    “To prepare for the burning bowl, each person writes on slips of paper those negative traits or situations they would like to be rid of in the year to come. Examples might be, […] “Proclivity for attracting Messrs. Wrong”—anything that needs to go in the auld acquaintance category and be never brought to mind.”

name

  1. A surname from Scots.

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Etymology

From Scots auld or from Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (“old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown up; old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, nourished, matured”). Compare cognate Latin altus (“nourished, raised, grown; tall”). Doublet of old.

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