Usually means: Pertaining to ancient or past times.
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  1. olden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. olden: Merriam-Webster
  3. olden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. olden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. olden: Collins English Dictionary
  6. olden: Vocabulary.com
  7. Olden, olden: Wordnik
  8. olden: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. olden: Wiktionary
  10. olden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. olden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. olden: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Olden, olden: Dictionary.com
  14. olden: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Olden (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Olden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. olden: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. olden: Rhymezone
  19. Olden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. olden: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. olden: FreeDictionary.org
  22. olden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. olden: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Olden)

▸ adjective:  From or relating to a previous era.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Old; ancient.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, dated or rare) To grow old; age; assume an older appearance or character; become affected by age.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Eastland County, Texas, United States

Similar:
past, old-time, old-world, ancient, antique, anchient, archaic, antiquitous, olde, antiquous, more...

Opposite:
modern, contemporary, current, present-day

Types:
Victorian, Edwardian, Georgian, Elizabethan, more...

Phrases:
Olden Polynice, The Olden Domain, olden times, olden days, in ye olden days, more...

Adjectives:
grong, cute, young, new, late, cornered, same

Colors:
    sepia,     umber,     ochre,     rust,     mustard, more...



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Similar:
past, old-time, old-world, ancient, antique, anchient, archaic, antiquitous, olde, antiquous, more...

Opposite:
modern, contemporary, current, present-day

Types:
Victorian, Edwardian, Georgian, Elizabethan, more...

Phrases:
Olden Polynice, The Olden Domain, olden times, olden days, in ye olden days, olden ways of life, suit in the olden times, of the olden days, painkiller but in the olden times, more...

Adjectives:
grong, cute, young, new, late, cornered, same

Colors:
    sepia,     umber,     ochre,     rust,     mustard, more...



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