time-honoured

Speech parts

1. time-honoured - Adjective

2. time-honoured - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

honored because of age or long usage

acceptable for a long time

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Alternative names

time honoured

Synonyms

time-honored old-fashioned common standard current established old traditional regular normal accepted hoary ancient fixed classical

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Antonyms

callow new modern current developed established

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Examples

The time-honoured bread-sauce of the happy ending. Henry James

The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions. Alastair Reynolds

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses. Jodi Picoult

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me. Robert Smith (musician)

time-honored institutions Source: Internet

time-honored customs Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

time-hallowed time-homogeneous Markovian type time-honored time-hopping time-independent time-independent Markovian type