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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of a style or method formerly in vogue; outdated.
  2. adj. Attached to or favoring methods, ideas, or customs of an earlier time: old-fashioned parents.
  3. n. A cocktail made of whiskey, bitters, sugar, and fruit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Formed in a fashion which has become obsolete; antiquated: as, an old-fashioned dress.
  2. Partaking of the old style or old school; characterized by antiquated fashions or customs; suited to the tastes of former times.
  3. Characterized by or resembling a person of mature years, judgment, and experience; hence, precocious: as, an old-fashioned child.
  4. Synonyms and Ancient, Old, Antique, etc. See ancient.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
  2. adj. Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.
  3. n. A whiskey-based cocktail

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old customs, styles, or ideas.
  2. adj. Unacceptable or suboptimum because of having been superseded by something more recent; outmoded{2}; out-of-date.
  3. adj. Unfashionably out of date; out of style.
  4. n. A cocktail consisting of whiskey, bitters, and sugar, garnished with with fruit slices and often a cherry.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a cocktail made of whiskey and bitters and sugar with fruit slices
  2. adj. out of fashion

Etymologies

  1. old + fashioned (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “That's what you call an old-fashioned pitchers duel, I guess," Weaver said.”

    The Seattle Times

  • “The book, which is aimed at children aged nine to 11, is described as an "old-fashioned fable in a modern setting".”

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  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: Kalooki Nights

  • “There are three primary arm-wrestling styles: the power slam, the over-the-top move and what Camp described as the "old-fashioned hook.”

    The Wall Street Journal: New York's Most Feared Bicep

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Promised World

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

  • “Piney Woods combats students’ estrangement through stressing what could best be called old-fashioned values.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE ENVY OF The World

  • “But that was treated as old-fashioned, a kind of silly sentimentality that could only hold us back.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Good Fight

  • “Unlike the typical evangelical megachurch, Mount Olivet is decidedly old-fashioned.”

    Simon & Schuster: American Grace

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: American Grace

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