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Langsyne

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

ad. Long ago; long since.

n. Time long past; times past.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

ad. Yesteryear, in the old days, some time ago.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

ad. Long since; long ago.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Time long past; the days of long ago. See syne.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

ad. of the distant or comparatively distant past

ad. at a distant time in the past (chiefly Scottish)

n. past times remembered with nostalgia

Word Usage

"“It was not Christie,” said Mary; “it was — it was a gentleman — a gentleman with a bright breastplate, like what I hae seen langsyne, when we dwelt at Avenel —”"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

yesteryear past past times