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Definition of Langsyne
1. Adverb. At a distant time in the past (chiefly Scottish).
2. Noun. Past times remembered with nostalgia.
Generic synonyms: Past, Past Times, Yesteryear
Definition of Langsyne
1. adv. & n. Long since; long ago.
Definition of Langsyne
1. Adverb. Yesteryear, in the old days, some time ago. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Langsyne
1. time long past [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Langsyne
Literary usage of Langsyne
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne: With a Memoir and Poems of Caroline by Carolina Oliphant Nairne Nairne, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Rogers (1869)
"On auld langsyne, my dear, On auld langsyne; The bluid is cauld that \vinna warm
At thoughts o' ... Sin' auld langsyne ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"In the days o' langsyne we were happy an' free, Proud lords on the land, an'
kings on the sea ! To our foes we were fierce, to our friends we were kind, ..."
3. Poems, Songs, and Sonnets by Robert Reid (1894)
"WHAT means langsyne ? " oor fremit comrade spier'd, Aboot the turn o' nicht when
havers fail, And some ane hinted as we raise tae ..."
4. Ballads and Poems by Glasgow Ballad Club (1898)
"langsyne, when life was bonnie, An' a' the days were lang; When through them ran
the music That comes to us in sang; We never wearied ..."
5. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
"langsyne, when life was bonnie, An' a' the days were lang; When through them ran
the music That comes to us in sang, We never wearied ..."
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