Definition of olde in English:
olde
adjective əʊldˈəʊldiˈōldē
attributive In or relating to an old-fashioned style that is intended to be quaint and attractive.
Example sentencesExamples
- Morris dancers often claim to be keeping alive a quaint ye olde English custom.
- You'll find them on estates yes, but also in the nice, leafy suburbs and in quaint olde English villages.
- Mikah had thought it looked like ye olde Greek style, and so Skylar was wearing it.
- The costumes were a mix of traditional Korea, ye olde Denmarke, and 20th century styles both modern and archaic.
- This style of political satire goes back to olde Englande and its first practitioner, Johnathan Swift.
Synonyms
picturesque, charming, sweet, attractive, pleasantly old-fashioned, old-fashioned, old-world, toytown
Origin
Mid 19th century: pseudo-archaic variant spelling of old.