Olden Definition

ōldən
adjective
Old; ancient; of old, or of former times.
Webster's New World

From or relating to a previous era.

"In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, Now heaven knows, Anything Goes" - Cole Porter - "Anything Goes"
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verb

(intransitive) To grow old; age; assume an older appearance or character; become affected by age.

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Origin of Olden

  • Middle English old old old -en adj. suff. –en2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From old +"Ž -en.

    From Wiktionary

Olden Sentence Examples

  • That's how they did it in the olden days.

  • In olden times there were three classes of burgh.

  • In the olden times the Skinners' Company of the city of London was an association of furriers and skin dressers established under royal charter granted by Edward III.

  • Otherwise, reference was made for an interpretation to the pontifices in olden times,afterwards frequently to the Sibylline books,or the Etruscan haruspices, when the incident was not already provided for by a rule, as, for example, that it was unlucky for a person leaving his house to meet a raven, that the sudden death of a person from epilepsy at a public meeting was a sign to break up the assembly.

  • Tankerness House is a characteristic example of the mansion of an Orkney laird of the olden time.

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