old school

noun

1. advocates or supporters of established custom or of conservatism:

   a military man of the old school.

old school

noun

1. a school formerly attended by a person
2. a group of people favouring traditional ideas or conservative practices

Other Words From

• old-school adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of old school¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

In the midst of the clubbiness, there is a heimishe (Yiddish for familiar, old school) quality.

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Many of the ones around today are more like the Sprite Generation but there are still some old school left in La Eme.

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The Metropolitan Opera is the old-school Cadillac of arts institutions.

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These are not start-ups or struggling new media companies, but established businesses in old school industries.

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But old-school plants—the type that grow in the dirt—have also been vital to human progress.

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And why, he suddenly thought again, were they so impressed by the mere fact of his coming to revisit his old school?

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He paused in the roadway and stared into the darkness where the building of the old school had first appeared to him.

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The real fact is that Mr. Parson's father was a burglar of the fine old school.

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Past that she went, with a passing temptation to look within, and toward the old school-house.

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Goldsmith's poetry belongs to the old school, for he was a follower of Johnson, a strenuous opponent of the new romanticism.

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