Lang Syne

Definition: Lang Syne

Lang Syne

Adverb

1. Of the distant or comparatively distant past; "We met once long ago"; "they long ago forsook their nomadic life"; "left for work long ago"; "he has long since given up mountain climbing"; "This name has long since been forgotten"; "lang syne" is Scottish.

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Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lang Syne

The Past

Noun: the past, past time; days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times, former times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time; auld lang syne; eld.

Crosswords: Lang Syne

As they, sat and sang Auld Lang Syne by the light of the moon ("Do Ya"; performing artist: Electric Light Orchestra)

Auld Lang Syne (1937)

Auld Lang Syne (performing artist: Kenny G)

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Books

• Days of Auld Lang Syne (The Best Sellers of 1895) (reference)

• Auld Lang Syne (reference)

• For Auld Lang Syne (reference)

• For Auld Lang Syne (American Romance No 420) (reference)

• The days of auld lang syne (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Caledonian Heritage Pipes and Drums: Auld Lang Syne (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Auld Lang Syne (reference)

• Auld Lang Syne [Culburnie] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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"We'll take a cup o'kindness yet for auld lang syne." - A highland home, Scotland.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "lang syne": Auld lang syne ♦ old lang syne. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

отдавна минало време, едно време (in the olden times, once). (various references)

Greek 

προ πολού (whilom). (various references)

Hungarian

régen (aforetime, in former times, in the days of long-ago, long ago). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蛍の光 (Auld Lang Syne, firefly glow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほたるのひかり (Auld Lang Syne, firefly glow). (various references)

Manx

shenn laghyn, foddey er-dy-henney (long ago, long since). (various references)

Pig Latin

anglay ynesay

Russian 

старина (ancientness, antiquities, my boy, old bean, old buck, old chap, old fellow, olden times). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odavno (age: for ages, long ago, long since, long: a long time ago, old: of old, yore), davno (long ago, yore), davna prošlost. (various references)

Spanish

canción escocesa tradicional de despedida (auld lang syne). (various references)

Swedish

gångna tider, för länge sedan (long ago), den gamla goda tiden. (various references)

Turkish

geçmişte (back, in the past), geçmiş zaman (Eld, past, past tense, preterit, preterite), geçmiş (antecedents, background, belated, bygone, case history, departed, former, gone, history, passe, passee, past, previous, standing, yesterdays), eskiden (anciently, before now, beforetime, erstwhile, formerly, in days of yore, in old times, in times of old, of old, of yore, onetime, sometime), bir zamanlar (erstwhile, in days of yore, once upon a time). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuở xưa (auld lang syne, formerly, olden). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: langsyne.

-2 letters: angels, angles, gleans, sagely, sanely, slangy.

-3 letters: agley, angel, angle, elans, gales, glans, glean, glens, gleys, lanes, leans, lyase, senna, slang, yangs, yeans.

-4 letters: ages, agly, ales, anes, ayes, easy, egal, elan, engs, eyas, gaen, gaes, gale, gals, gane, gays, gels, gens, glen, gley, lags, lane, lang, lase, lays, lean, leas, legs, lens, leys, lyes, lyse, nags, nans, nays, sage, sagy, sale, sane, sang, seal, slag, slay, snag, snye, syne, yang, yean, yeas, yens.

-5 letters: age, ale, als, ane, any, aye, ays, els, eng, ens, gae, gal, gan, gas, gay, gel, gen, gey, lag, las, lay, lea, leg, ley, lye, nae, nag, nan, nay, sae, sag, sal, say, sea, seg, sel, sen, sly, syn, yea, yen, yes.

+1 letter: langsynes, yeanlings.

+2 letters: sanguinely, sneakingly.

+3 letters: unceasingly.

+4 letters: astringently, geosynclinal, increasingly, nauseatingly.

+5 letters: meaninglessly, unreasoningly.

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