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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

olde en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic spelling of old.
    alt of old
    • Staid, olde Britain goes bonkers / ‘Red-Nose Day’ puts chuckle in charity 1989 March 11, Dayton Daily News, volume 112, number 183, Dayton, Oh., page 8 - A:
    • 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. 1973 November 25, James G. Andrews, “In Merrie Olde Arkansas”, in The Commercial Appeal Mid-South Magazine, page 4:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more olde Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most olde Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

olde worlde · ye olde · olde tyme · Olde English Bulldogge