old-established

British  

adjective

1. established for a long time

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Example Sentences

Every day an average of 2,000 people are crossing into Uganda from the old-established states of Western, Central and Eastern Equatoria in the south of the country.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2017

Being unaffiliated is not the same as being atheist or agnostic, but it does suggest a waning of evangelical institutional authority, just as traditional authority in the old-established churches began crumbling several decades ago.

From Economist • May 3, 2012

After the family had moved west across London to settle in Putney, Judt was educated at Emanuel school, an old-established independent school in Battersea.

From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2010

He got the Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. business away from one of the old-established air insurance firms and split it with Fred Roper.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are now two large breeding-places of the Black-headed Gull in Norfolk, a very old-established one at Scoulton Mere, and a more recent colony at Hoveton Broad.

From Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes by Browne, Thomas, Sir