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OLD TIMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Past times remembered with nostalgia
Synonyms:
auld langsyne; good old days; langsyne; old times
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("old times" is a kind of...):
past; past times; yesteryear (the time that has elapsed)
Context examples:
Will you believe it, and go back to the happy old times when we first knew one another?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We sat down and we drank and we yarned about old times, but the more he drank the less I liked the look on his face.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Bessie and I conversed about old times an hour longer, and then she was obliged to leave me: I saw her again for a few minutes the next morning at Lowton, while I was waiting for the coach.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many; just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
We remember old times, Mr. Copperfield!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Well, it's altogether delightful, and like old times.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mr. David, for the sake of old times, do, please, try to help me!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But you are not merely a businessman, you love good and beautiful things, enjoy them yourself, and let others go halves, as you always did in the old times.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Now let us see,” said Mrs. Markleham, putting her glass to her eye, “where the passage is. “The remembrance of old times, my dearest Annie”—and so forth—it's not there.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
