Olden
['əʊld(ə)n] or ['oldən]
Definition
(a.) Old; ancient; as, the olden time.
(v. i.) To grow old; to age.
Typist: Michael
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Rare.] Ancient, old, not modern.
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Examples
- We have all read of the castles in olden days into which the owner could retire and raise a drawbridge across a ditch, thus putting a barrier in the way of his enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Were not the mightiest men of the olden times kings? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the war many gypsies have become bad again as they were in olden times. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- On the whole, he was like a baron of the olden time in a rare good humour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We were going simply to see the old trees, the old ruins; to pass a day in old times, surrounded by olden silence, and above all by quietude. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the olden days the wage of battle was almost universally decided by the strength of brawn, and the higher qualities of mind were subservient. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They only know now there is a war and people may kill again as in the olden times without a surety of punishment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It had been customary, as in olden times, to push the apparatus forward by a horse or horses hitched behind. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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