"olde" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more olde",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most olde",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "olde (comparative more olde, superlative most olde)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "old"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "olde tyme"
        },
        {
          "word": "olde worlde"
        },
        {
          "word": "ye olde"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973 November 25, James G. Andrews, “In Merrie Olde Arkansas”, in The Commercial Appeal Mid-South Magazine, page 4",
          "text": "Crossbowmen from such distant realms as Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Delaware, all right there in Merrie Olde Arkansas, in the non-medieval year of 1973.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989 March 11, Dayton Daily News, volume 112, number 183, Dayton, Oh., page 8 - A",
          "text": "Staid, olde Britain goes bonkers / ‘Red-Nose Day’ puts chuckle in charity",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic spelling of old."
      ],
      "id": "en-olde-en-adj-7SN64~af",
      "links": [
        [
          "old",
          "old#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "olde"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "olde tyme"
    },
    {
      "word": "olde worlde"
    },
    {
      "word": "ye olde"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more olde",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most olde",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "olde (comparative more olde, superlative most olde)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "old"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English archaic forms",
        "English autological terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973 November 25, James G. Andrews, “In Merrie Olde Arkansas”, in The Commercial Appeal Mid-South Magazine, page 4",
          "text": "Crossbowmen from such distant realms as Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Delaware, all right there in Merrie Olde Arkansas, in the non-medieval year of 1973.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989 March 11, Dayton Daily News, volume 112, number 183, Dayton, Oh., page 8 - A",
          "text": "Staid, olde Britain goes bonkers / ‘Red-Nose Day’ puts chuckle in charity",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic spelling of old."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "old",
          "old#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "olde"
}