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old-fash·ioned

(ōld′făsh′ənd)

adj.

1. Of a style or method formerly in vogue; outdated.

2. Attached to or favoring methods, ideas, or customs of an earlier time: old-fashioned parents.

A cocktail made of whiskey, bitters, sugar, and fruit.

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old-fashioned

adj

1. belonging to, characteristic of, or favoured by former times; outdated: old-fashioned ideas.

2. favouring or adopting the dress, manners, fashions, etc, of a former time

3. quizzically doubtful or disapproving: she did not reply, but gave him an old-fashioned look.

4. dialect Scot and Northern English old for one's age: an old-fashioned child.

(Brewing) a cocktail containing spirit, bitters, fruit, etc

ˌold-ˈfashionedly adv

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old′ fash′ioned

(sometimes caps.) a cocktail made with whiskey, bitters, water, and sugar.

[1900–05]

old′-fash′ioned

adj.

1. of a kind that is no longer in style.

2. favored or prevalent in former times: old-fashioned ideas.

3. having the conservative behavior, ways, ideas, or tastes of earlier times.

[1645–55]

old′-fash′ioned•ly, adv.

old′-fash′ioned•ness, n.

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Adj.

old-fashioned - out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

demode, ex, outmoded, passe, passee, old-hat, antique

unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"

old-fashioned

adjective

1. out of date, ancient, dated, outdated, unfashionable, antiquated, outmoded, passé, old hat, behind the times, fusty, out of style, unhip (slang), démodé (French), out of the ark (informal), not with it (informal), (old-)fogeyish She always wears such boring, old-fashioned clothes.
out of date happening (informal), current, modern, with it (informal), contemporary, fashionable, trendy (Brit. informal), chic, up-to-date, modish, du jour (French), voguish, culty

2. oldfangled, square (informal), outdated, old, past, dead, past it (informal), obsolete, old-time, archaic, unfashionable, superannuated, obsolescent, unhip (slang), out of the ark (informal) She has some old-fashioned values.

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old-fashioned

adjective

Of a style or method formerly in vogue:

antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, dated, dowdy, fusty, old, old-time, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, passé, vintage.

Translations

old-fashioned

[ˈəʊldˈfæʃnd] ADJ

1. (= outmoded) [thing] → anticuado, pasado de moda; [person, attitude] → anticuado, chapado a la antigua
good old-fashioned honesty → la honestidad de toda la vida

2. (Brit) (o.f.) (= disapproving) to give sb an old-fashioned look → mirar a algn con extrañeza

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

old-fashioned

[ˈəʊldˈfæʃnd] adj → antiquato/a, fuori moda; (person) → all'antica

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

old

(əuld) adjective

1. advanced in age. an old man; He is too old to live alone.

2. having a certain age. He is thirty years old.

3. having existed for a long time. an old building; Those trees are very old.

4. no longer useful. She threw away the old shoes.

5. belonging to times long ago. old civilizations like that of Greece.

old age

the later part of a person's life. He wrote most of his poems in his old age.

old boy/girl

a former pupil (of a school). The new prime minister is an old boy of our school.

ˌold-ˈfashioned adjective

in a style common some time ago. old-fashioned clothes; Her hairstyle is very old-fashioned.

old hand

a person who is very experienced. He's an old hand at this sort of job.

old maid

an unmarried woman who is past the usual age of marriage.

the old

old people. hospitals for the old.

old-fashioned

→ مِنَ الْطُرَازِ الْقَدِيـمِ staromódní gammeldags altmodisch παλιομοδίτικος anticuado vanhanaikainen vieux jeu staromodan antiquato 時代遅れの 구식의 ouderwets gammeldags staromodny antiquado старомодный gammalmodig สมัยเก่า eski moda lỗi thời 过时的

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As the first part of "An Old-Fashioned Girl" was written in 1869, the demand for a sequel, in beseeching little letters that made refusal impossible, rendered it necessary to carry my heroine boldly forward some six or seven years into the future.

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As this will probably be an interesting subject to our readers, we shall make a separate sketch of it, and call it The Old-Fashioned School.

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In spite of this the old man inspired in all his visitors alike a feeling of respectful veneration- especially of an evening when he came in to tea in his old-fashioned coat and powdered wig and, aroused by anyone, told his abrupt stories of the past, or uttered yet more abrupt and scathing criticisms of the present.

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In the Surovsky district there was no railway nor service of post horses, and Levin drove there with his own horses in his big, old-fashioned carriage.

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This fine talent is neglected nowadays, and considered old-fashioned, which is a sad mistake, and one that I don't mean to make in bringing up my girl.

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"It's the new setting: of course it shows the stone beautifully, but it looks a little bare to old-fashioned eyes," Mrs.

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The palace of crystal may be an idle dream, it may be that it is inconsistent with the laws of nature and that I have invented it only through my own stupidity, through the old-fashioned irrational habits of my generation.

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The gabled brick, tile, and freestone houses had almost dried off for the season their integument of lichen, the streams in the meadows were low, and in the sloping High Street, from the West Gateway to the mediaeval cross, and from the mediaeval cross to the bridge, that leisurely dusting and sweeping was in progress which usually ushers in an old-fashioned market-day.

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He stands before her with one hand on a chair-back and the other in his old-fashioned waistcoat and shirt-frill, exactly as he has stood before her at any time since her marriage.

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As a farming investment, using old-fashioned methods, it was not worth it.

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I never supposed she'd want them--they're so old-fashioned, and nobody seems to want anything but hooked mats now.

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There are many books we read which we think of as very pretty, very quaint, very interesting--but old-fashioned. But Shakespeare can never be old-fashioned, because, although he is the outcome of his own times, and gives us all the flavor of his own times, he gives us much more.