olde

See also: olde-

English

Adjective

olde (comparative more olde, superlative most olde)

1. Archaic spelling of old.
   • 1973 November 25, James G. Andrews, “In Merrie Olde Arkansas”, in The Commercial Appeal Mid-South Magazine, page 4:

     Crossbowmen from such distant realms as Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Delaware, all right there in Merrie Olde Arkansas, in the non-medieval year of 1973.

   • 1989 March 11, Dayton Daily News, volume 112, number 183, Dayton, Oh., page 8 - A:

     Staid, olde Britain goes bonkers / ‘Red-Nose Day’ puts chuckle in charity

Derived terms

• olde tyme
• olde worlde
• ye olde

 

Anagrams

• DOLE, Delo, Deol, Doel, Dole, Ledo, OLED, dole, leod, lode

Basque

Noun

olde

1. impulse

Esperanto

Adverb

olde

1. (chiefly poetic, neologism) agedly, oldly

Synonyms

• maljune

Antonyms

• june (“in a young manner, youthfully”)

Related terms

• olda (“old”)
• oldi (“to be old”)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• old, ald
• holde, wolde
• yolde, yhold, yolle

Etymology

From Old English ald, from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːld/, /ald/

Adjective

olde

1. old

Descendants

• English: old, wold (dialect)
• Geordie English: awd, auld
• Scots: auld
• Yola: yole, yold

References

• “ōld(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

olde

1. A moon in its first phase after new; a waxing crescent.
   • 1225, Dialogue on Vices and Virtues:

     Wið-uten ðe læche ðe loceð after mannes ikynde, þe newe oðer elde, and ðe wrihte his timber to keruen after ðare mone, ðe is ikyndelich þing; elles hit is al ȝedwoll.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• olde mone

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English all day.

Adverb

olde

1. daily

Related terms

• de
• olde olde