elden
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elden¹
- /ˈɛl.dən/
Sounds like Eldon · Rhymes with -ɛldən
Where it comes from
From eld + -en (“to become”). Compare Middle English elden, ealdien (“to age, grow older”). More at eld.
verb eldens · eldening · eldened
- To advance in eld or old age; to grow older; to age. 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, […]
elden²
- /ˈɛl.dən/
Sounds like Eldon · Rhymes with -ɛldən
Where it comes from
From eld + -en (“pertaining to”).
adjective
- Rare form of olden.olden 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; […]
