good old days

Noun

Meaning

past times remembered with nostalgia

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

langsyne old times auld langsyne history past golden age heyday long ago auld lang syne good times old days days of yore before times earlier times beautiful days
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Antonyms

bad old days morrow now present future afterward
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Hypernyms

past yesteryear past times

Related terms

back in the day

Examples

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. Jimi Hendrix

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity. Flora Thompson

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days. George W. Bush

The good old days are now. Tom Clancy

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included. Edsger W. Dijkstra

Close letter words and terms

good old boyhood good old boyism good old boyness good old times good ole good ole boy