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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough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 provide for the elderly (family members) / to enjoy a life in retirement
to thump repeatedly with one's fist
(of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age
Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
to look after one's aged parents and arrange proper burial after they die
old and decrepit / senile
(coll.) just and incorruptible official

Sentences with 老

ná
ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
de
dà
huán
da̅o
lái