olden

/'ouldən/

Thân thiện

In the olden days, people traveled by horse and carriage.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Belonging to a long time in the past; ancient or former: "olden" describes something from a distant, often idealized or historical, past period. It is primarily used in a literary or poetic style.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The story is set in the olden days, when knights rode horses.
  • We heard tales of olden times from our grandparents.
  • In olden years, travel was much more difficult.

Advanced Usage

• "the olden days": a fixed phrase referring to a vague, often romanticized period in the distant past.
  • People didn't have smartphones in the olden days.
• "olden times": a synonym for "the olden days," used to evoke a historical era.
  • The museum exhibit shows tools from olden times.

Variants and Related Words

• Old (adj): having existed for a long time. (Note: "old" is a much more common and general term, while "olden" is specifically literary and refers to a bygone era.)
• Bygone (adj): belonging to an earlier time.
  • We study the customs of bygone eras.
• Ancient (adj): of or from a very long time ago.
  • They discovered ancient ruins.

Synonyms

• Former: of an earlier time.
• Past: gone by in time.
• Historical: concerning past events.
• Archaic: very old or old-fashioned.

Related Phrases

• In days of old / In days of yore: poetic phrases similar in meaning to "in the olden days."
  • In days of yore, kings ruled these lands.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. long past
   • olden days