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time-honoured

time-honoured is the alternative spelling of time-honored.

Meaning of time-honored

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-honoured

comparativemore time-honoured
superlativemost time-honoured

Questions about time-honoured

What is time-honoured the alternative spelling of?
Time-honoured is the alternative spelling of time-honored.

Words near time-honoured in the dictionary

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

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