Sentence examples for * means old from inspiring English sources

The word means "Old Ancestor".

That means old.

This means "old" but that's fine too.

It just means old and divorced.

He often says "venerable" when he means "old".

Vieille vignes in its name simply means old vines.

But at great-books colleges, classic still means old-fashioned Western Civ.

That means old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs are being phased out, in favor of energy-saving models.

This means old-school storage providers are commonly forced to offer space in or close to pricey metropolitan areas, like New York City or San Francisco, which drives up operating costs.

The deliberate distortion of words is called doublespeak and we actually see it frequently in real-life politics (for example, the Clear Skies Act makes it easier to pollute the air and "enhanced interrogation" means old-fashioned torture).

And returning to an all-inclusive "we" means old-fashioned organized lifting of the people's voice to our elected officials.