OLD TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old times mean? 

• OLD TIMES (noun)
  The noun OLD TIMES has 1 sense:

1. past times remembered with nostalgia

  Familiarity information: OLD TIMES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD TIMES (noun)

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 ("old times" is a kind of...):

past; past times; yesteryear (the time that has elapsed)

 Context examples 

“Dear me!” he said, “it's past one. The moments slip away so, in the confidence of old times, Master Copperfield, that it's almost half past one!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

‘Tut, you will find that I have not forgotten old times,’ cried Mr. Trevor, and, walking towards the sailor, he said something in a low voice.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Quite like old times,” said he to Belcher.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The happy old times can't come back, and we mustn't expect it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was indeed like old times when, at that hour, I found myself seated beside him in a hansom, my revolver in my pocket, and the thrill of adventure in my heart.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Gee, it's like old times," Jimmy explained to the gang that gave him the laugh as Martin and the blonde whirled away in a waltz.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I rejoice also that there is a chapel of old times.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Old times crowded fast back on me as I watched her bustling about—setting out the tea-tray with her best china, cutting bread and butter, toasting a tea-cake, and, between whiles, giving little Robert or Jane an occasional tap or push, just as she used to give me in former days.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years had transformed the fine-looking, well-grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow of health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless widow, receiving the visit of her former protegee as a favour; but all that was uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left only the interesting charm of remembering former partialities and talking over old times.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“Oh, very much so! But I wish you'd call me Uriah, if you please. It's like old times.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)