olden

adjective

Definition of oldennext
as in historical

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Recent Examples of olden Folk saints fill a void in a largely Catholic country where most saints, many with olden European roots, don’t always resonate. — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 7 June 2026 In the olden days, when the United States did summit meetings with the Soviet Union, there was a fundamental reason for that, which is, one of the things that the United States wanted from the Soviet Union was arms control. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026 In those golden olden days, pop idols were thought of in the most hallowed terms possible. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 May 2026 One of the world’s largest exhibitions of olden literature is gathering more than a hundred booksellers from across the globe to share their choicest wares — rare tomes, illustrations, maps, historical documents and random ephemera guaranteed to level-up your bookshelf and walls. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for olden
Recent Examples of Synonyms for olden
  1. historical
  2. traditional
  3. historic
  4. antiquated
  5. obsolete
  6. old-time
  7. outmoded
  8. outdated
Adjective
  • The couple took pains to preserve historical details like the house's original wooden shutters.
    — Sophie Caldwell,Valentina Duarte, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
  • City outlines restrictions on camera use In its statement, the city said officers must enter an offense type and associated case number when conducting historical ALPR searches as part of investigations.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of historical
Adjective
  • Upon landing in Samarkand on Sunday night, Rubio was warmly embraced by Uzbekistan’s foreign minister, Bakhtiyor Saidov, while two women clad in elaborate gold-and-black traditional dresses presented him with a bouquet.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2026
  • In all these areas, the traditional aid system is falling short.
    — David Miliband, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of traditional
Adjective
  • Police on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the arson attack that charred the historic city hall in Limoges, in central France, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that the person may not have acted alone.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • On Saturday alone, at least 2,400 people were arrested after rioters in cities across France clashed with police, set cars on fire, stormed public buildings, looted stores and engulfed a historic city hall in flames.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of historic
Adjective
  • According to firefighters, the department’s flood response was also limited by an antiquated dispatch system.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Plaintiffs challenging the prohibition on home distilling claim the 1868 law is an antiquated relic of Reconstruction-era politics.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of antiquated
Adjective
  • Whether machines can make conventional money obsolete remains an open question.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Advertisement That prescription has rankled many cybersecurity experts who scoff at the possibility that their expertise will be rendered obsolete.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of obsolete
Adjective
  • The docent, red glasses in hand, slumps against the old-time cannon.
    — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • While today's freezers are packed with ice cream flavors such as cookies and cream, salted caramel and mint chocolate chip, some old-time favorites seem to have melted away.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of old-time
Adjective
  • This tense aspect pushes us to evolve and strip away outmoded patterns, confronting our relationship with vulnerability, control, and fear.
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The group is silent and still, reverently absorbing the mechanical chug of this nearly outmoded office machine like Hollywood Bowl-goers taking in Joshua Bell.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of outmoded
Adjective
  • Hire a credit repair company Credit repair services can contact credit reporting agencies to remove inaccurate or outdated negative information on your behalf.
    — Brian Sloan,Dan Avery, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Locals saw the pitchfork as outdated—four tines would have been more appropriate—and the woman unforgivably dour.
    — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of outdated

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“Olden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/olden. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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