lang syne

lang syne

1. (poetic) long ago
   • c. 1910, Ezra Pound, Prometheus, lines 3–4:

     Our selves have died lang syne, and we
     Go ever upward […]

• of old, way back; see also Thesaurus:long ago

lang syne

1. long ago

lang syne (not comparable)

1. ancient, of long ago

lang syne

1. old times
2. memories of the past
3. old friendships

• “lang syne, adv. comb., adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
• “lang-syne, adv. phr.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.