old times
The good days
Old times refers to an earlier period, usually remembered with fondness or nostalgia.
The phrase appears most often in for old times' sake—doing something because of shared history rather than present necessity: Let's get dinner for old times' sake.
Old times evokes personal or collective memory: We talked about old times.
- pastTime already gone
- back in the dayIn times past
- yesteryearTime not long past
- way back whenA long-ago time
- yellowedFaded to cream
bygone · sepia · gramophone · nostalgia · memories · reminiscence · photo album · long ago · heritage · golden age · heirlooms · retro · oral tradition · wistfulness · yore · simpler · Sunday dinners · porch
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- memoriesmemories, remember, recollections, childhood memory, childhood memories
- nostalgianostalgia, nostalgic, memories, memory, remember
- The Pastpast, ancient, formerly, previously, yesteryear
- time sayingstime flies, time is money, time heals all wounds, time will tell, carpe diem
old timesthe present
Current moment in time
modern times · nowadays · the here and now · today · contemporary era
old timesnew era
Period of transformation
uncharted territory · new beginnings · fresh start · the great unknown · terra incognita
old timesmodern age
Current historical epoch
new age · modern era · contemporary times · digital age · space age
old, elder, older, elderly, times, timeless, timer, oldest, timely