Meaning & use
olden
Belonging to a former time, especially the distant past; old-fashioned or bygone.
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In olden days, letters took weeks to travel between distant countries.
Grandfather loved to tell stories about the olden times before electricity reached the village.
A note on using this word
Olden survives mainly in the fixed phrase olden days or olden times and sounds old-fashioned outside that expression.
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