Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of a style or method formerly in vogue; outdated.
- adj. Attached to or favoring methods, ideas, or customs of an earlier time: old-fashioned parents.
- n. A cocktail made of whiskey, bitters, sugar, and fruit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Formed in a fashion which has become obsolete; antiquated: as, an old-fashioned dress.
- Partaking of the old style or old school; characterized by antiquated fashions or customs; suited to the tastes of former times.
- Characterized by or resembling a person of mature years, judgment, and experience; hence, precocious: as, an old-fashioned child.
- Synonyms and Ancient, Old, Antique, etc. See ancient.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
- adj. Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.
- n. A whiskey-based cocktail
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old customs, styles, or ideas.
- adj. Unacceptable or suboptimum because of having been superseded by something more recent; outmoded{2}; out-of-date.
- adj. Unfashionably out of date; out of style.
- n. A cocktail consisting of whiskey, bitters, and sugar, garnished with with fruit slices and often a cherry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cocktail made of whiskey and bitters and sugar with fruit slices
- adj. out of fashion
Etymologies
- old + fashioned (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That's what you call an old-fashioned pitchers duel, I guess," Weaver said.”
“The book, which is aimed at children aged nine to 11, is described as an "old-fashioned fable in a modern setting".”
“These days doctors don’t smoke while they’re treating you, but Shrager was what was known as an old-fashioned family doctor even then.”
“There are three primary arm-wrestling styles: the power slam, the over-the-top move and what Camp described as the "old-fashioned hook.”
“So we might as well call it old-fashioned evil as long as we understand that evil means nothing more than the howling emptiness of a soul with nothing to give.”
“That’s a retronym, a phrase with a modifier fixing a meaning to a noun that needed no modifier before: The shift to night baseball created day baseball, just as the invention of the electric guitar required us to call the old-fashioned instrument an acoustic guitar.”
“Piney Woods combats students’ estrangement through stressing what could best be called old-fashioned values.”
“But that was treated as old-fashioned, a kind of silly sentimentality that could only hold us back.”
“Unlike the typical evangelical megachurch, Mount Olivet is decidedly old-fashioned.”
“And for members of Our Savior Lutheran, that life means abundant Bible study, turkey supper fund-raisers, and—at least once a year—a good old-fashioned Tetzel Toss.”
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cocktails I can prepare without consu...
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Words for Readable Blog
Words that I intend to write about on readableblog.com -- so, words that are useful or fun for intermediate-advanced learners of English.
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