prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough

= + : Lancelot (l) is showing his respect to grandpa (老) in the aorta's living room (ao3). He's bowing deep and offering a crown (⺹), but grandpa refuses by hitting Lancelot on the head with a ladle (匕).

老 character breakdown

dagger / ladle / ancient type of spoon

= 丿 + : Brunhilde plays a game inside the space station's living room (Ø3) using zero gravity: using a big ladle (mnemonic symbol for 匕) and a shovel (乚) as bats, she beats a banana (丿) back and forth.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + 丿 : Looks a bit like a crown. The crown is made of three bananas and a bit of clay.

Characters with 老 as component

governess / old woman
grandma (maternal)

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) and his mother Bessie Coleman (女) meet Lancelot's granddad (老) in the aorta (ao3). His granddad says that he cannot keep his secret anymore: actually he's a woman, so he's his maternal grandma (姥). She also wants to become governess (姥) of the aorta.
man of sixty or seventy
male / man (Cantonese)
rhodium (chemistry)
basket
extremely aged (in one's 80s or 90s) / octogenarian / nonagenarian
a noise / a sound
aged / in one's eighties
name of a tribe

Words with 老

to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak
old / aged / (of calligraphy or painting) vigorous / forceful
to grow old / to age / aging
ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser
to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank
lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom); fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague
carer of elderly persons / aged care worker
the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears
variant of 赤佬[chi4 lao3]
see 薑還是老的辣|姜还是老的辣[jiang1 hai2 shi4 lao3 de5 la4]

Sentences with 老

ná
ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
de
dà
huán
da̅o
lái