Reactionary or conservative. / Long-established.

(informal) The Devil.

A (comparatively) conservative, reactionary faction that is more unwilling to accept new ideas than their peers are. / Collectively, the members of a team who have been a long time in a place.

A linguistic ancestor of the Chinese languages, spoken during roughly the first millennium BCE.

A west Germanic language historically tied to Anglo-Saxon and Old Low Franconian.

(chiefly Britain) An alumnus, especially of a public school. / A former member of a group. / (UK) An old man. / (UK, dated) A familiar term of address for a man of any age.

(Britain, slang, dated, sometimes as a term of address) An old friend; an old chap or fellow.

(idiomatic) A person who is experienced at a certain activity.

(usually in the plural) A time in the past.

A branch of Old Low Franconian, with a Frisian substrate, spoken and written during the Middle Ages (c. 9th to 12th century) in the Netherlands and the northern part of present-day Belgium, as well as in areas of northern France along the North Sea coast and adjoining Belgium. This language represents the first attested stage of the Dutch language and its dialects, being succeeded by Middle Dutch in the later Middle Ages.