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age-old
Very old; having existed for a long time; ancient or well-established
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  1. Very old; having existed for a long time; ancient or well-established
  2. Very old or ancient.
ancient
Having existed a long time; very old
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  1. Having existed a long time; very old
  2. Of, relating to, or belonging to times long past, especially before the fall of the Western Roman Empire ( ad 476):
  3. Of great age; very old:
antediluvian
Of the time before the biblical Flood
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  1. Of the time before the biblical Flood
  2. (Bible) Occurring or belonging to the era before the Flood.
  3. Very old, old-fashioned, or primitive
antiquated
Aged
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  1. Aged
  2. No longer used or useful; obsolete, old-fashioned, out-of-date, etc.
  3. Very old; aged:
antique
Of, or in the style of, a former period
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  1. Of, or in the style of, a former period
  2. Belonging to, made in, or typical of an earlier period:
  3. Of ancient times; ancient; old
archaic
Relating to, being, or characteristic of words and language that were once in regular use but are now relatively rare and suggestive of an earlier style or period.
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  1. Relating to, being, or characteristic of words and language that were once in regular use but are now relatively rare and suggestive of an earlier style or period.
  2. Relating to or being an early form of Homo sapiens or a closely related species, such as Neanderthal, that is anatomically distinct from modern humans.
  3. Belonging to an earlier period; ancient
hoary
Covered with grayish hair or pubescence:
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  1. Covered with grayish hair or pubescence:
  2. Gray or white with or as if with age.
  3. So old as to inspire veneration; ancient.
old
Made long ago; in existence for many years:
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  1. Made long ago; in existence for many years:
  2. Known through long acquaintance; long familiar:
  3. Belonging to a remote or former period in history; ancient:
old-time
Of long standing or experience
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  1. Of long standing or experience
  2. From or reminiscent of an earlier time or era; old-fashioned.
  3. Of, like, or characteristic of past times
timeworn
Trite or banal; overused or hackneyed
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  1. Trite or banal; overused or hackneyed
  2. Worn or deteriorated by long use or existence
  3. Used too often; trite:
venerable
(--- Roman Catholic Church) Used as a title for a person who has reached the first stage of canonization.
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  1. (--- Roman Catholic Church) Used as a title for a person who has reached the first stage of canonization.
  2. (--- R.C.Ch.) A title of veneration for a dead person who may later be beatified
  3. Impressive on account of age or historic or religious associations
Find another word for olden. In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for olden, like: age-old, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, hoary, old, old-time, timeworn and venerable.

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  • That's how they did it in the olden days.

  • In olden times there were three classes of burgh.

  • See Sir Daniel Wilson, Memorials of _Edinburgh in the Olden Time (2 vols.

  • In the olden times the Skinners' Company of the city of London was an association of furriers and skin dressers established under royal charter granted by Edward III.

  • Otherwise, reference was made for an interpretation to the pontifices in olden times,afterwards frequently to the Sibylline books,or the Etruscan haruspices, when the incident was not already provided for by a rule, as, for example, that it was unlucky for a person leaving his house to meet a raven, that the sudden death of a person from epilepsy at a public meeting was a sign to break up the assembly.

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