Main
Main adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Old
Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The arisen who became Daimon was presented the same choice with an extra twist: the dragon was his old master and his beloved was his master's (and his) main pawn.
Source: Video Game / Dragon's Dogma - In Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable Defeat, two of the main characters, both grown men, one older than the other, are a lover/beloved couple.In The Nice and the Good, a man becomes attracted to his 15-year-old nephew, who is oblivious, instead pining for a girl his own age.
Source: Lover and Beloved -
The main character Vayne of Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis, being an artificially-made Mana, looks like any normal 16-17 year old teenager, except that he was actually around six years old.
Source: Younger Than They Look
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Old or Main. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/main/old.
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