olden
adj.adj. relating to the past, especially a long time ago. You might hear this word in stories or old songs about history.
adj. relating to the past, particularly a distant or ancient time. Often used in the phrase 'the olden days' to evoke a sense of nostalgia or historical distance.
He often talks about the olden days when life was simpler.
The museum's collection includes artifacts from the olden times, showing how people lived before modern technology.
The poet's verses frequently reference the olden days, using the past as a lens to critique the rapid industrialization of his contemporary era.
From Middle English olden, probably originally an inflected plural form of old (compare Old English ealdum, dative plural of eald (“old”)), but later reanalysed as equivalent to old + -en (“made of”). Otherwise derived from Old Norse aldinn (“ancient, old”).
From old + -en (“to make (adjective)”).