olden

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to time long past; old or ancient: olden days.

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  • I recall the olden days with one computer model at the Bureau that went out 48 hours. —  News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio
  • I recall the olden days when you could remove the end cap and refill laser cartridges your own self. —  LXer Linux News
  • The slower Jeanne's recovery, the greater joy was yielded to Helene, who recalled the olden days when she had suckled her, and, as she gazed on her gathering strength, felt even a keener emotion than when in the past she had measured her two little feet in her hand to see if she would soon be able to walk At the same time some anxiety remained to Helene. —  A Love Episode
  • The chief desire of the country is now to reinvest her republican monuments with the character and aspect which best recall her olden freedom and enterprise. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
  • The frightful Panama adventure was scarcely over; he had followed the progress of that tragedy with the anguish of a man who every night expects to hear the tocsin sound the last hour of olden, agonising society. —  The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English : old, old; see old + -en, adj. suff.; see -en2.

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  1. from old + -en.
  2. from old + -en, an adjective suffix irreg. attached to an adjective
 

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/ˈoʊldn/
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