昔
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Meanings
- the old days, the past, former times, a long time ago
- the past ten years, the past decade
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Long ago, there was a big castle in this town.
I felt nostalgic looking at old photos.
My grandfather often tells me about the old days.
I heard there used to be a forest here in the past.
She has been good at cooking since way back.
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important, serious, crucial; valuable, precious; serious matter, major incident, matter of grave concern, crisis; great undertaking, great enterprise, great thing; safe, OK
to get dirty, to become dirty; to become sullied, to become corrupted, to lose one's chastity
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character (esp. kanji), letter, written text; handwriting, penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
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