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Aged vs Old-fashioned - What's the difference?

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Aged is a related term of old-fashioned.


As adjectives the difference between aged and old-fashioned

is that aged is while old-fashioned is of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.

As a noun old-fashioned is

a whiskey-based cocktail.

aged

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Old.
  • Undergone the effects of time, improving as a result.

    • Alternative forms

    * (disyllabic only)

    Noun

    (head)
  • (uncountable) Old people, collectively.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (age)

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Having the age of. (primarily non-US)
    • Aged 18, he had no idea what would happen next.
  • * 1865 October 6, “ Court of Special Sessions”, in The New York Times :
    • John Mathews, aged about 18, stood at the bar with his hands in his pockets, alike indifferent to a verdict of acquittal or guilty.
  • * 2012 March 22, Amy Chozick, “ As Young Lose Interest in Cars, G.M. Turns to MTV for Help”, in The New York Times :
    • Forty-six percent of drivers aged 18 to 24 said they would choose Internet access over owning a car, according to the research firm Gartner.

    Anagrams

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    old-fashioned

    English

    Alternative forms

    * old fashioned

    Adjective

  • Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.

    • Usage notes

    * Said of all kinds of things including words, houses, places, chimneys, character traits, cookware, education, music, or style.

    Noun

    (wikipedia old-fashioned) (en noun)
  • A whiskey-based cocktail.
  • * 1996 , Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
    • At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds .