yore

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a time long past, now used chiefly in the phrase 'of yore'

   The restored inn still displays farming tools from the days of yore.

From Middle English yore and Old English ġeāra ("long ago"), probably from a Proto-Germanic form meaning literally "of years," the genitive plural of *jērą ("year"). Once also an adverb meaning "long ago," it survives mainly as a noun in of yore.

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