eld Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a late time of life
    geezerhood; age; old age; years.
    • old age is not for sissies
    • he's showing his years
    • age hasn't slowed him down at all
    • a beard white with eld
    • on the brink of geezerhood
  2. noun a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
    age.
    • she was now of school age
    • tall for his eld

WordNet

Eld adjective
Etymology
AS. eald.
Definitions
  1. Old. Obs. Chaucer.
Eld noun
Etymology
AS. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald, old. See Old.
Definitions
  1. Age; esp., old age. Obs. or Archaic
    As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage. Chaucer.
    Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld. Spenser.
  2. Old times; former days; antiquity. Poetic
    Astrologers and men of eld. Longfellow.
Eld intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To age; to grow old. Obs.
Eld transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To make old or ancient. Obs.
    Time, that eldeth all things. Rom. of R.

Webster 1913