Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Respected or adhered to because of age or age-old observance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Honored for a long time; venerable and worthy of honor by reason of antiquity and long continuance: as, a time-honored custom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective honored because of great age, or long usage
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective honored because of age or long usage
- adjective acceptable for a long time
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Examples
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This episode gave birth to the “Washington Monument ploy,” which refers to the time-honored tradition of politicians responding to threats of spending cuts by declaring that the most popular programs would be the first to go.
Broke Glenn Beck 2010
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With the advent of the Phoenician alphabet, then, and following other alphabets that appeared in its wake, time-honored social orders were reconfigured, and wider populations gained access to literacy.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Here the ministers wear time-honored white robes, adorned with colorful stoles.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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With the advent of the Phoenician alphabet, then, and following other alphabets that appeared in its wake, time-honored social orders were reconfigured, and wider populations gained access to literacy.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In this political battle, Kirby employed a time-honored tactic of push pollers and ward politicians: He used an ominoussounding claim—“Curiously, the first case of autism was not recorded until the early 1940s, a few years after thimerosal was introduced in vaccines”—to make his accusation sound as if it was idle speculation.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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But then, to test his skills in a time-honored fashion taught at all Greek schools of rhetoric, the king asked him to take the opposite stand and denounce Macedonian virtue.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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But reading too much into what happens in April is a time-honored, New York tradition.
Five Things We Know About the Mets Brian Costa 2011
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It used to be that kids stayed with their Majors team for as long as they played in that league, allowing for the time-honored practice of coaches stocking their ponds by picking good young ten-year-olds who were not ready for Majors now but showed promise for the future.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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Many Britons celebrated the nuptials in the time-honored tradition of holding street parties.
World Watch 2011
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While the world's attention on Friday focused largely on the royal wedding and the party after it at Buckingham Palace, most people in the U.K. celebrated the nuptials in the time-honored British tradition of holding street parties.
Street Parties Celebrate, Disparage Nuptials Dana Cimilluca 2011
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