Definition
Extremely old.
Origins
Possibly a reference to Job 15:7 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou made before the hills?”
In Context
- "His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable."
- "A violent revolution cannot achieve anything except the inevitable results of violence, which are as old as the hills."
Also Said As
- aged
- age-old
- ancient
- old as the Pyramids
- old as time
- older than dirt
- older than the Pyramids
- ancient
- aged
- age-old
- antediluvian
- auld
- cobwebbed
- cobwebby
- decrepit
- eld
- eldern
- gamol
- gray
- hoary
- moss-grown
- old
- old as the hills
- old as the Pyramids
- olden
- older than dirt
- older than the hills
- older than the Pyramids
- venerable
- wintry