once (in the indeterminate past)

olden days; former

work; labor / achievement; ability; performance; talent / salary; earnings; income

(historical) a low-end prostitute of the Edo period

(literary) they (about women or girls)

work done for free, unpaid work, uncompensated work / work done in vain, work with no favorable end result

to work for free, to work without pay or other compensation / to work in vain, to work with no favorable end result

(archaic, grammar) any word that declines or conjugates / (archaic, grammar) more specifically, a verb

just as in the old days, just as it used to be

(archaic, colloquial) a nickname of Ariwara no Narihira, Heian-period waka poet