old school

SEE MORE SYNONYMS FOR old school ON THESAURUS.COM

noun

advocates or supporters of established custom or of conservatism: a military man of the old school.

Nearby words

old river, old rose, old russian, old saw, old saxon, old school, old school tie, old scratch, old shoe, old skool, old slavic

Origin of old school

First recorded in 1790–1800

Related formsold-school, adjective

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for old-school

The Metropolitan Opera is the old-school Cadillac of arts institutions.
Inside the Metropolitan Opera’s Insane Year|Shawn E. Milnes|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But old-school plants—the type that grow in the dirt—have also been vital to human progress.
Growth Stocks|The Daily Beast|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Spire rests on the same basic principal as the old-school fountains.
Font of Invention||September 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Rivers was an old-school trouper, fully immersed in pop culture for her comedy routine.
Joan Rivers: Our Last Interview|Tim Teeman|September 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The 68-year-old actress follows an old-school routine from the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Helen Mirren Trains Like the Air Force; Kendall Jenner Denied Kim Kardashian at Her Shows|The Fashion Beast Team|July 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was only the absurd jealousy of the old-school Mussulmans that annihilated for ever the faculties of their wives.
In the Land of Mosques & Minarets|Francis Miltoun
The highbred conduct of Mr. Gwynn from the beginning had been worthy of him as an old-school English gentleman.
The President|Alfred Henry Lewis
Both Adah and Maria belong to that old-school class of proper feminine folk who never pick but always pluck flowers.
The House|Eugene Field
The special agent turned first to that primary command of the old-school detective when a crime is committed: "Find the woman."
Uncle Sam Detective|William Atherton Du Puy
He taught that “the most puzzling things of all to the old-school teleologists are the principia of the Darwinian.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4|Various

British Dictionary definitions for old-school

old school

noun

mainly British a school formerly attended by a person

a group of people favouring traditional ideas or conservative practices

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for old-school

old-school

adj.

in reference to a group of people noted for conservative views or principals on some professional or political matter, 1749, from old + school (n.).

old school

noun

RELATED CONTENT

RELATED WORDS

Nearby words

Origin of old school

Examples from the Web for old-school

British Dictionary definitions for old-school

old school

noun

Word Origin and History for old-school

old-school