Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The times gone past; the good old days.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times
long since past.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun past times remembered with nostalgia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Scots : auld, old + lang, long + syne, since.]
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sonofgroucho commented on the word auld lang syne
I am a Scotsman and I have no idea what this means! I see what you mean about the earworm, though!
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December 31, 2007
winddancer commented on the word auld lang syne
Apparently, this means "old long since" "long long ago". It's the title of Robert Burns' poem and it was used, I believe, by several other poets.
July 16, 2009