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Synonyms for old-school
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
Top 10 synonyms for old-school
- behind the times
- bygone
- conforming
- conservative
- dated
- dead
- dead and gone
- dinosaur
- discarded
- disused
- done for
- dusty
- earlier generation
- extinct
- fossil
- gone
- had it
- has-been
- horse and buggy
- kaput
- leftovers
- moldy
- moth-eaten
- old
- old line
- old-fashioned
- old-hat
- old-school
- out
- out-of-fashion
- outworn
- passé
- past
- stale
- superannuated
- superseded
- timeworn
- traditional
- unfashionable
- unprogressive
Définition of old-school
Origin :- in reference to a group of people noted for conservative views or principals on some professional or political matter, 1749, from old + school (n.).
- As in obsolete : adj no longer in use, in vogue
- As in old hat : adj overfamiliar
- As in old school : noun earliest way of doing things
- Fired five thousand of the old-school officers to win this war.
- Extract from : « The Iron Ration » by George Abel Schreiner
- Now comes the old-school doctor, and thrusts in his lancet too soon.
- Extract from : « Bits About Home Matters » by Helen Hunt Jackson
- Starke touched his hat with the air of an old-school gentleman.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 » by Various
- Both Adah and Maria belong to that old-school class of proper feminine folk who never pick but always pluck flowers.
- Extract from : « The House » by Eugene Field
- He's a good detective, but he likes the old-school methods, and—he and I never got on very well.
- Extract from : « Through the Wall » by Cleveland Moffett
- He is the type of old-school editor who has everything handy in a profound confusion.
- Extract from : « The Dead Men's Song » by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
- It is to-day, even as it was of yore, thronged with all the paraphernalia of ships and shipping of the old-school order.
- Extract from : « Rambles on the Riviera » by Francis Miltoun
- We have seen some very bad riders among British cavalry officers, brought up in the old-school method of seat and band.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 » by Various
- Patrick Hall was the leader of the old-school Presbyterians in his region of Virginia.
- Extract from : « Cyrus Hall McCormick » by Herbert Newton Casson
- He taught that “the most puzzling things of all to the old-school teleologists are the principia of the Darwinian.”
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 » by Various
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