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• In the olden days, players didn't wear numbers on their jerseys. • What we used to do - you know in the olden days , the ladies used to use stays . • Often in olden days would I be lifted up, and up, and up, for the sake of my plays.
In the olden days or in olden days means in the past. In the olden days the girls were married young. In olden days, of course, a flag-lieutenant was in charge of the Admiral's signal flags.
Feb 14, 2012 · (Literary) If you refer to a period in the past as the olden days, you feel affection for it. We had a delightful time talking about the olden days on his farm. ...the nicely painted railways of olden times. tip. In the olden days or in olden days means in the past. In the olden days the girls were married young. by the app of ...
- "Old days" is possibly more correct — but "olden days" is a common saying. History of the phrase "olden days"
- If one consults the OED entry for ‘olden’ , one learns that ‘olden’ dates all the way back to Cursor Mundi itself, hardly a Victorian tome. It’s al...
- The trivia tidbit that is missing here is that 'old' in ME was also a noun meaning old folks "the olden'' or ancient times. Send æfter þine wiue...
- In the Viking Old Norse language and in present-day Scandinavian languages, "the" is represented by adding "en" to the end of the word. Olden seems...
Mar 15, 2024 · Both 'in the old days' and 'in the olden days' are correct and commonly used phrases in English. They are interchangeable and can be used to refer to a time in the past. Last Updated: March 15, 2024
In olden times, turning points in the seasons were carefully recorded, and often aligned with saints' days.
uk / ˈəʊl.d ə n / us / ˈoʊl.d ə n / Add to word list. from a long time ago: There weren't things like televisions and computers in the olden days. In olden times, people rarely travelled. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Old or old-fashioned. age-old. ageing. ancient. antediluvian. anti-progressive. fossilization. fossilized. frumpy.
Aug 16, 2011 · In modern German, the expression "in olden days" still has the same ending: "in alten Tagen". In fact, one of the pages cited by Brian also reports the Old English form "on ealdum dagum", with the original dative ending "-um", which was later reduced to "-en", and finally disappeared in Modern English.
