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Old Style

Old Style noun: the Julian calendar system, especially with reference to Russia, where it continued to be used until the early 20th century.

Noun

Old Style (uncountable)

  1. (historical) The Julian calendar system, especially with reference to Russia, where it continued to be used until the early 20th century.
    • The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns — a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms — days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 16
    • As the [Manx] people reckon this festival according to the Old Style, Hollantide in the Isle of Man is our twelfth of November.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 244
  2. (historical) A dating system in which March 25 is the New Year's Day.

Old Style meaning in Urdu

Old Style in Urdu

پرانی طرز کا

Questions about Old Style

What does Old Style mean?
Old Style means the Julian calendar system, especially with reference to Russia, where it continued to be used until the early 20th century.
What is Old Style in Urdu?
Old Style in Urdu is پرانی طرز کا. See Old Style meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is Old Style?
Old Style is a noun.

Words near Old Style in the dictionary

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  2. old sticks
  3. Old Stone Age
  4. Old Strait
  5. Old Stratford
  6. Old Style
  7. Old Swan
  8. old sweat
  9. old sweats
  10. Old Swedish
  11. Old Swiss Confederacy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Old Style (page history and authors); old style (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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