oldest
Speech parts
1. oldest - Noun
2. oldest - Adjective
Meaning
oldest
superlative form of old: most old
oldest (plural oldests)
The oldest child in a family, or individual in a group.
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Examples
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
The old are the oldest.
The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit.
Of everything else the newest; of friends, the oldest.