olden days
Long ago era
The olden days are times long past, especially as remembered nostalgically or referenced in storytelling: In the olden days, people wrote letters by hand.
The phrase evokes a vague, romanticized past rather than a specific historical period.
Often used when contrasting past and present customs or technologies.
- yesteryearTime not long past
- bygoneOf earlier times
- once upon a timeTraditional narrative opening
- ancientVery old indeed
- long agoIn the distant past
vintage · antique · horse and buggy · nostalgia · sepia · grandfather · memory · folklore · tradition · hearth · candlelight · oil lamp · cobblestone · dusty · faded · chronicles · legends · heirloom
- time wordsminute, hour, now, soon, today
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- nostalgianostalgia, nostalgic, memories, memory, remember
- antediluvianNoah, ark, great flood, deluge, Methuselah
olden daysthe present
Current moment in time
modern times · nowadays · today · contemporary era · modern age
olden daysmodern age
Current historical epoch
digital age · space age · atomic age · information age · jet age
old, olden, older, oldest, oldster, oldie, oldish, day, days