old school

Speech parts

1. old school - Noun

2. old school - Adjective

3. old school - Phrase

Meaning

a class of people favoring traditional ideas

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

old-school

Synonyms

old-fashioned college old traditional past regular frump ancient conventional classic dated conservative acceptable obsolete customary
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Antonyms

new modern current designer liberal chic
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Hypernyms

class stratum social class socio-economic class

Examples

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. Camille Paglia

I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked. Obie Trice

If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact. Anderson Cooper

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker. Anthony Weiner

The Old School Tie can still be seen on the Government benches. Clement Attlee

There may have been sometime in the history of the world a worse religion than Old School Presbyterianism, but if there ever was, from cannibalism to civilization, I have never heard of it. Robert G. Ingersoll

Words in the phrase

old school

Close letter words and terms

old saying Old Scandinavian old scheme old school tie Old Scratch old sea dog