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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. acceptable for a long time;
- Example: "time-honored customs"
[syn: time-honored, time-honoured]

2. honored because of age or long usage;
- Example: "time-honored institutions"
[syn: time-honored, time-honoured]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

time-honored adj 1: acceptable for a long time; "time-honored customs" [syn: time-honored, time-honoured] 2: honored because of age or long usage; "time-honored institutions" [syn: time-honored, time-honoured]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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