olden times
Long ago era
Olden times refers to a vague, distant past—days long before living memory.
The phrase has a slightly nostalgic or storybook quality: In olden times, people traveled by horse and carriage.
It's informal and imprecise, gesturing at history without specifying when.
- MedievalOf the 5th-15th centuries
- antiquesValuable old items
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- oral storytellingTransmitting tales aloud
Renaissance · wistfulness · golden age · reminiscence · Ancient Greece · Dark Ages · manuscripts · scrolls · tribal dances · harvest festivals · heirlooms · horse and buggy · town crier · village square · Ancient Rome · Victorian · courtship rituals · bygone era
temporal era
olden timesthe present
Current moment in time
nowadays · contemporary times · modern times · today · the here and now
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