elden

See also: Elden and əldən

English

Etymology 1

From eld +‎ -en (“to become”). Compare Middle English elden, ealdien (“to age, grow older”). More at eld.

Verb

elden (third-person singular simple present eldens, present participle eldening, simple past and past participle eldened)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To advance in eld or old age; to grow older; to age.
   • 1955, Barbara Jefferis, Beloved Lady, page 49:

     Margery looked up at him, colouring, startled, suspicious. "Truth, Lady, you've no call to look at me thus," Hugh said, smiling. "I'm eldening now, like my late master, God cherish him, but I'm not so old I can't remember what it is to burn, […]

Synonyms

• eld, olden; see also Thesaurus:to age

Etymology 2

From eld +‎ -en (“pertaining to”).

Adjective

elden (not comparable)

1. Rare form of olden.
   • 1852 June, E[dmund] C[larence] S[tedman], “Ode to Pastoral Romance”, in The Yale Literary Magazine: […], volume XVII, number VII, New Haven, Conn.: […] A. H. Maltby. […] T. J. Stafford, stanza V, page 260:

     In the orient, elden age, / Ere man had learned to wage / Dispassionate war against his natural mind, / Thy voice of mystery— / Reading aloud the earth’s extended page, / Bade human aspirations find, / In the cool fountain and the forest tree, / A sentient Deity; […]

   • 1882, Robert Whittet, “Suffering in the Individual Life of Man”, in The Brighter Side of Suffering, and Other Poems, Richmond, Va.: Whittet & Shepperson; West, Johnston, & Co.; and J. W. Randolph & English, page 86:

     And when, adown life’s current floating slow, / Earth’s mated hearts with happy cooings go, / It may be scarce begun the joyful voyage, / Which hope has drawn out unto elden age, / Ere the sad mandate is received, to cast / Aside the aspirings fostered of the past; […]

   • 1984, Dennis L[ester] McKiernan, “The Gathering”, in The Darkest Day (The Iron Tower; 3), New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, published 1985, →ISBN, page 53:

     And some miles ahead, at the heart of the Riverwood and upon the banks of the Islebome, stood the ruins of Luren, once a great trade city, but destroyed in elden times: […]

Anagrams

• leden, neeld

Manchu

Romanization

elden

1. Romanization of ᡝᠯᡩᡝᠨ

Swedish

Noun

elden

1. definite singular of eld

Anagrams

• delen, en del, leden