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Olden points to a long time ago, but English has almost locked it inside a few phrases. The one you will actually meet is the olden days, sometimes olden times: in the olden days, children walked to school. It sounds like a story, a little soft and old-fashioned itself — fine in speech when you are painting the past, odd in a science report. Do not put it in front of just any noun: an olden house and an olden man are not natural. There is a very rare verb to olden, “to become old,” but ordinary English does not use it. For , this word lives in that one warm phrase about the past.
往昔的（幾乎只出現在 olden days／olden times，即從前、舊時）
組成From Middle English olden, probably first a plural form of old (compare Old English ealdum, a dative plural of eald “old”), later understood as old + -en, the ending in words like golden. Some people connect it instead with Old Norse aldinn “ancient, old.” The rare verb is from old + -en “to make.”
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Oldenname
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A surname.
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An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Eastland County, Texas, United States.
oldenadj詞源 1/ˈəʊl.dn̩/
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From or relating to a previous era.
- olden days, olden times
- "You are right to some extent in what you say. In the olden days people had a stronger belief in all kinds of witchery; now they pretend not to believe in it, that they may be looked upon as sensible and educated people, as you say."
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archaicOld; ancient.
- We […] told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion.
- Beowulf, behind his shield, thrust forth only his right arm. In it he had picked up the sword of Ing, well known in olden lore.
oldenverb詞源 2/ˈəʊl.dn̩/
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datedrareTo grow old; age; assume an older appearance or character; become affected by age.
- Of all Sedley's opponents in his debates with his creditors which now ensued, and harassed the feelings of the humiliated old gentleman so severely, that in six weeks he oldened more than he had done for fifteen years before—the most determined and obstinate seemed to be John Osborne, his old friend and neighbour […]
- They were not worldly days; and so, as we olden with our passage through the world, they stay young, and we love them as pure youthful things are loved.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。