olden

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊl.dn̩/, /ˈəʊl.dən/
• (US) IPA^(key): [ˈɔldn̩], [ˈɔldən]
• Rhymes: -əʊldən

From Middle English olden, equivalent to old +‎ -en. Compare Old English ealdum, inflected form of eald (“old”).

olden (not comparable)

1. From or relating to a previous era.
   • Cole Porter, Anything Goes

     In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now heaven knows, anything goes.

2. (archaic) Old; ancient.
   • 1857, Martha Griffith Browne, Autobiography of a Female Slave (page 347)

     We […] told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion.

From old +‎ -en.

olden (third-person singular simple present oldens, present participle oldening, simple past and past participle oldened)

1. (intransitive) To grow old; age; assume an older appearance or character; become affected by age.
   • 1912, John Ayscough, Saints and places (page 123)

     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.

• eld

• Eldon, Loden, loden

olden m (definite singular oldenen, indefinite plural oldener, definite plural oldenene)

1. (archaic) mast (tree fruit, nut)