Time-honored

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Time-honored \Time"-hon`ored\ (t[imac]m"[o^]n`[~e]rd), a.
     Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by
     reason of antiquity, or long continuance.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  time-honored
       adj 1: honored because of age or long usage; "time-honored
              institutions" [syn: {time-honoured}]
       2: of long standing and acceptance; "time-honored customs"
          [syn: {time-honoured}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "time-honored":
     accepted, acknowledged, admitted, age-old, august, awe-inspiring,
     awesome, awful, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, current,
     customary, dreadful, established, estimable, everyday, familiar,
     fixed, folk, generally accepted, habitual, hallowed, handed down,
     heroic, hoary, honorable, honored, immemorial, inveterate,
     legendary, long-established, long-standing, mythological, normal,
     obtaining, of long standing, of the folk, oral, ordinary, popular,
     prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, received, recognized, regular,
     regulation, respected, revered, reverend, rooted, set, standard,
     stock, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood,
     unwritten, usual, venerable, venerated, widespread, wonted,
     worshipful