olden
16
9.6
- adjective
- /ˈoʊldən/
- Archaic
:
antiguo
- Would you like it better if it were still like the olden days?
- olden days
- olden times
But in the olden days, in the olden days, that makes me sound so ancient.
- But in the olden days, in the olden days, that makes me sound so ancient.
- Man, the olden days farmer markets were intense.
- I used to be a resolution guy back in the olden days.
- But in the olden days, we built our boats with breadfruit trees.
- It was an easy number to calculate, but it's a in those, in olden times, people didn't necessarily handle money in the way that they do today.
- Is theatre going through a similar kind of disruption and impossible rebirth or is it, you know, is it stuck in the olden days?
- Now the part, the component which you actually change to fix that gland is what they usually use as a piece of greased ring in the olden days.
Examples
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But in the olden days, in the olden days, that makes me sound so ancient.
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Many people believe that children had more freedom to explore during the olden days.
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It's good for your brain and you learn about the olden days.
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Here we are as in the olden days, happy golden days of the old.
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In the olden days, this would have been the end of the line.
Fiction book (2002) -
I suppose I miss the simplicity of the olden days.
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Do you remember the olden days when every patient, not just the elderly, was registered with a named GP?
Academic text (2014) -
Don't you think things actually were better, though, in the olden days?
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But in the olden days, we built our boats with breadfruit trees.
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What seems now to be a ceremonial activity most probably had a regulative nature in olden times.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
From an earlier time, not happening now
∞
3.4
Very old and from a long time ago
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6.1
Relating to a very early stage in a language, period, or culture
38
4.2
Very old and present for a long time
18
6.7
Like music or clothes from a past time that feel warm and familiar
16
8.0
From an earlier time that is now past
9
8.4
From an earlier time and not happening now
8
4.8
From a time very long ago
7
9.3
So old that no one remembers when it began
4
9.9
A spelling used to make a place or thing look like it is from the past
3
9.9
Exists for a very long time, often about traditions, stories, or ideas
2
9.9
Very old-fashioned and out of date
From earlier times and no longer used to talk about people or things
From a long time ago and not new
Antonyms
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word olden comes from the simple word old plus the little ending -en that once meant 'of' or 'from'. So olden literally means 'from long ago', which is why we say 'olden days' to talk about the distant past.