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See also: -eld, 'eld, and éld.

English

Alternative forms

elth
eild, eeld, ild, yeeld (Scotland)

Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ELD Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)#ELD

Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.

Pronunciation

Noun

eld (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#ELD Category:English nouns#ELD Category:English uncountable nouns#ELD Category:English uncountable nouns#ELD Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ELD Category:Pages with entries#ELD Category:Pages with 8 entries#ELD

(rare Category:English terms with rare senses#ELD or dialectal Category:English dialectal terms#ELD) One's age, age in years, period of life.
- 1868, John Eadie, A Biblical Cyclopædia:
  The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.
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- 1913, Paulist Fathers, Catholic World:
  Promptly appeared a paragon, aged twenty-five or thereabouts, and exhibiting all the steadiness and serenity of advanced eld.
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(archaic Category:English terms with archaic senses#ELD or poetic Category:English poetic terms#ELD) Old age, senility; an old person.
Synonyms: elderliness; see also Thesaurus:old age, Thesaurus:old person
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 223:
  Dotard, (ſaide he) let be thy deepe aduiſe;
  Seemes that through many yeares thy wits thee faile,
  And that weake eld hath left thee nothing wiſe,
  Els neuer ſhould thy iudgement be ſo frayle,
  To meaſure manhood by the ſword or mayle.
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- 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 245:
  Taught he not thee—the man of eld, / Whose eyes within his eyes beheld / Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man?
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- 1904, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sun's Shame, verse 2, lines 1–3:
  As some true chief of men, bowed down with stress
  Of life's disastrous eld, on blossoming youth
  May gaze, and murmur with self-pity and ruth […]
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- 1912, Herbert Van Allen Ferguson, Rhymes of Eld:
  The withered limbs of eld, the thin, gray hair […]
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- 1912, Arthur S[anders], transl. Way, Medea, Heinemann, translation of Medea by Euripides, published 1946, page 329:
  the alien wife / No crown of honour was as eld drew on.
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(archaic Category:English terms with archaic senses#ELD or poetic Category:English poetic terms#ELD) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:eon
(archaic Category:English terms with archaic senses#ELD or poetic Category:English poetic terms#ELD) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
Synonyms: days of yore; see also Thesaurus:the past
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 38:
  Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld, when the damosel fled with her lover.
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Adjective

eld (comparative elder, superlative eldest)Category:English lemmas#ELD Category:English adjectives#ELD Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ELD Category:Pages with entries#ELD Category:Pages with 8 entries#ELD

(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#ELD) Old.

Synonyms

(old): aged, venerable; see also Thesaurus:old

Related terms

Verb

eld (third-person singular simple present elds, present participle elding, simple past and past participle elded)Category:English lemmas#ELD Category:English verbs#ELD Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ELD Category:Pages with entries#ELD Category:Pages with 8 entries#ELD

Synonyms

(to age): elden; see also Thesaurus:to age
(to linger): abide; see also Thesaurus:tarry or Thesaurus:procrastinate
(to make old): mature; see also Thesaurus:make older

References

1906, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "eld".

Anagrams

DLE, Del, Del., EDL, LDE, LED, del, del., led, μLED

Middle English

Adjective

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alternative form of old

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

eld m (definite singular elden, indefinite plural elder, definite plural eldene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#ELD Category:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#ELD Category:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#ELD Category:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#ELD Category:Pages with entries#ELD Category:Pages with 8 entries#ELD

form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by ildCategory:Norwegian Bokmål pre-2005 forms

Verb

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imperative of elde

Norwegian Nynorsk

fire
Mange kulturar har mytar om korleis dei vart herre over elden.
Many cultures have myths about how they mastered fire.
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fire (firing bullets or other projectiles)
Fienden opna eld.
The enemy opened fire.
Category:Norwegian Nynorsk terms with usage examples#ELD