auld lang syne love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The times gone past; the good old days.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun past times remembered with nostalgia

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Scots : auld, old + lang, long + syne, since.]

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  • I am a Scotsman and I have no idea what this means! I see what you mean about the earworm, though!

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    December 31, 2007

  • Apparently, this means "old long since" "long long ago". It's the title of Robert Burns' poem and it was used, I believe, by several other poets.

    July 16, 2009