ye olde
/ði oʊld/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
Pseudo-archaic form of the old, as to suggest antiquity or old tradition.
adj
Old-fashioned, antiquated, historic, especially in a contrived manner.
Example Sentences
- "I'm not wasting my time going to lectures given by ye olde professor Jones."
- "Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe"
- "All this time waiting at door. At last young fellow in a white jacket condescended to answer my bell—and asked me to wait some more in the porch. But I didn't see it and walked into ye olde tyme lounge hall, panelled in Elizabethan linen-fold oak made out of chewed paper painted olde shitte colour."
- "Judging from the panicked look and white pallor on Pinky's face, I'd just put him between ye olde rock and ye olde harde place. Not my problem."
- "The saga of the fugitive nags gripped the nation. All day, #horses was a trending topic on social media, as if this was ye olde days."
- "We lived in Crofton, Maryland, halfway between Annapolis and Washington, DC, at the western edge of Anne Arundel County, where the residential developments are all in the vinyl-sided Federalist style and have quaint ye-olde names like Crofton Towne, Crofton Mews, The Preserve, The Ridings."
Etymology
Origin
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ði oʊld/
- British English: /ðiː əʊld/