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GOOD OLD DAYS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does good old days mean?
• GOOD OLD DAYS (noun)
The noun GOOD OLD DAYS has 1 sense:
1. past times remembered with nostalgia
Familiarity information: GOOD OLD DAYS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Past times remembered with nostalgia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
auld langsyne; good old days; langsyne; old times
Hypernyms ("good old days" is a kind of...):
past; past times; yesteryear (the time that has elapsed)
Context examples
Why had not Miss Woodhouse revived the former good old days of the room?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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