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time-honored

time-honored adjective: honored because of great age, or long usage.

Adjective

time-honored (comparative more time-honored, superlative most time-honored)

  1. (US) Honored because of great age, or long usage.
    • It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Honourable Mr. Glascock”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 107

Forms of time-honored

comparativemore time-honored
superlativemost time-honored
alternative formtime-honoured

Questions about time-honored

What does time-honored mean?
Time-honored means honored because of great age, or long usage.
What part of speech is time-honored?
Time-honored is an adjective.

Words near time-honored in the dictionary

  1. time-grapher
  2. time-graphers
  3. time-gun
  4. time-guns
  5. time-homogeneous Markovian type
  6. time-honored
  7. time-honoured
  8. time-hopping
  9. time-independent
  10. time-independent Markovian type
  11. time-independent Schrödinger equation

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