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| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| olden (adj.) |
| means simply “old” or “extremely old, ancient, medieval,” and the word is archaic today: In (the) olden days is clearly back beyond the days that are merely old, and the locution smacks of old poems and tales; in some contexts it’s a frozen figure. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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