Meaning

3 senses

  1. (archaic, dialectal, intransitive, poetic)To age, become or grow old.

  2. (archaic, intransitive, poetic)To delay; linger.

  3. (archaic, poetic, transitive)To make old, age.

Origin

From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; perio

From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).

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Forms

elds, elding, elded, elded
Base formeld · to eld
3rd person singularelds
Present participleelding
Past simpleelded
Past participleelded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyeld
he, she, itelds

Past simpleLesson

all personselded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave elded
he, she, ithas elded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill eld

Synonyms

4 synonyms
to make old:matureB2
to age:elden
to linger:abide
procrastinate

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
elateelationC2elbowB1elderelderlyA2
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