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单词 olden
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olden

(oʊldən)
adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
If you refer to a period in the past as the olden days, you feel affection for it.
[literary]
We had a delightful time talking about the olden days on his farm.
...the nicely painted railways of olden times.
See in the olden days/in olden days

olden in British English

(ˈəʊldən)
adjective
an archaic or poetic word for old
in olden days
in olden times

olden in American English

(ˈoʊldən)
adjective
OLD-FASHIONED, Poetic
old; ancient; of old, or of former times
Word origin
ME, inflected form of old

Examples of 'olden' in a sentence
olden

In the olden days you searched for oil with dynamite.
The Sun (2008)
In the olden days we as a nation loved skiing.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In the olden days this would have been enough.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It took a different sort of player in ye olden days to survive on what was a quagmire for most of the season.
The Sun (2012)
In the olden days it didn't matter.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But it was also a simpler time, as the olden days tend to be.
The Sun (2012)
In olden times, those invited to dinner or a birthday party would take a bunch of flowers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
That was the olden times.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Imagine how much worse it was in olden days. This is grim.
The Sun (2015)
It's an old habit, from ye olden days when banks paid a modest interest.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Back in ye olden days, this wasn't a problem.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In the olden days, a trillion in Britain was a million million million.
The Sun (2014)
If we wanted to chat with fellow sitters in the olden days, we placed a couple of matching armchairs at right angles to the settee.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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