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  • 841 antiguamente

    adv.
    1 long ago (hace mucho).
    2 formerly, aforetime, in former times, in olden days.
    * * *
    1 in the old days, in the past
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    adv.
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    ADV in the past, in the old days
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    adverbio in the past, in the old days
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    = formerly, erstwhile, in the olden days, in olden times, in olden days.
    Ex. Mr. Berman was formerly Editor of the Social Responsibility Round Table (SRRT) Newsletter and is still a member of SRRT, but chooses not to be a member of the American Library Association.
    Ex. Hans Pauer, erstwhile Director of the Portrait Collection at the Austrian National Library, died on 25th May 89.
    Ex. If we can regard the card catalog as a tool that has been terrific and one about which our grandchildren going to the Smithsonian Institution will say, 'That's what my grandmother used in the olden days,' then we're on our way to letting it die with dignity = Si podemos considerar el catálogo de fichas como una herramienta que ha sido fabulosa y de la que nuestros nietos cuando vayan a la Institución Smithsoniana digan, "Esto es lo que mi abuela usaba antiguamente", entonces estamos empezando a dejarlo morir con dignidad.
    Ex. We have made wonderful inventions but in the courts we still move as slowly as the travelers that in olden times creeped along in ox carts and canal boats.
    Ex. In olden days, women of ill-repute would put a red light bulb in their front porch light socket.
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    adverbio in the past, in the old days
    * * *
    = formerly, erstwhile, in the olden days, in olden times, in olden days.

    Ex: Mr. Berman was formerly Editor of the Social Responsibility Round Table (SRRT) Newsletter and is still a member of SRRT, but chooses not to be a member of the American Library Association.

    Ex: Hans Pauer, erstwhile Director of the Portrait Collection at the Austrian National Library, died on 25th May 89.
    Ex: If we can regard the card catalog as a tool that has been terrific and one about which our grandchildren going to the Smithsonian Institution will say, 'That's what my grandmother used in the olden days,' then we're on our way to letting it die with dignity = Si podemos considerar el catálogo de fichas como una herramienta que ha sido fabulosa y de la que nuestros nietos cuando vayan a la Institución Smithsoniana digan, "Esto es lo que mi abuela usaba antiguamente", entonces estamos empezando a dejarlo morir con dignidad.
    Ex: We have made wonderful inventions but in the courts we still move as slowly as the travelers that in olden times creeped along in ox carts and canal boats.
    Ex: In olden days, women of ill-repute would put a red light bulb in their front porch light socket.

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    in the past
    antiguamente eso estaba mal visto that used to be frowned upon in the past o in the old days
    como se creía antiguamente as was once believed, as people believed in olden times o in the old days
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    antiguamente adverbio
    in the past, in the old days
    antiguamente adverbio formerly, long ago
    ' antiguamente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    segundón
    - segundona
    English:
    formerly
    - past
    - time
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    1. [hace mucho] in the past;
    antiguamente se utilizaban las diligencias they used to use stagecoaches in the past
    2. [previamente] formerly;
    más conocido antiguamente como… formerly better known as…
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    adv in the past
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    1) : formerly, once
    2) : long ago

    Spanish-English dictionary > antiguamente

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