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Definition: Old-time |
Old-timeAdjective1. Attractively old-fashioned; "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "old-time" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonym: Old-timeSynonym: quaint (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Old-time |
| English words defined with "old-time": quaint. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "old-time": demoscene ♦ fat electrons ♦ OS and JEDGAR ♦ PPN, propeller head. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A White House reception--President and Mrs. Roosevelt restore the old-time gayety to society in Washington / Ch. Weber. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stanley Clarke, old-time socialist of Oklahoma, speaking at Workers' Alliance meeting. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rocky Mountain George, old-time prospector. Esmeralda County, Nevada. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Old-time trail driver in front of kitchen cabinet. Crystal City, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negroes and whites at Workers' Alliance meeting listening to Stanley Clark, old-time socialist leader in Oklahoma. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Audience at old-time fiddlers' contest. Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Farm Cat" by Kenn W. Kiser Commentary: "Black cat sleeping outside in chair, among old-time farming items." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Health | These therapies included herbal remedies, old-time remedies, vitamins, and special diets. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Old-time" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Old-time" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "old-time"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 旧时, 古來 . (various references) | |
Korean | 오래 되 시간. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | old-timeay.(various references) | |
Russian | старинный (ancient, old, old time, old world, pre-columbian), прежних времен. (various references) | |
Swedish | gammeldags (old time). (various references) | |
Thai | สมัยก่อน. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuộc thời xưa, cổ (antiquated, antique, outdated). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Old-time" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Odt-mt, oldtime. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-m-o-t" | |
-1 letter: meloid, milted, moiled, molted, motile, toiled. | |
-2 letters: demit, limed, model, motel, oiled, oldie, teloi, tilde, tiled, timed, toile, toled. | |
-3 letters: deil, deli, delt, demo, diel, diet, dime, diol, dite, doit, dole, dolt, dome, dote, edit, emit, idem, idle, idol, item, lido, lied, lime, limo, lite, lode, loti, meld, melt, mild, mile, milo, milt. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-m-o-t" | |
+1 letter: demivolt, dolomite, melodist, modelist, moldiest. | |
+2 letters: demivolts, diplomate, dolomites, ethmoidal, immolated, melodists, metalloid, modelists, mouldiest, multimode, outsmiled, turmoiled. | |
+3 letters: collimated, demolition, diplomates, dolomitize, immodestly, intermodal, meliorated, metalloids, methodical, mislocated, modalities, multilobed, outclimbed. | |
+4 letters: ameliorated, automobiled, complicated, condimental, declamation, delightsome, demolitions, despoilment, dilatometer, dilatometry, dislodgment, dolomitized, dolomitizes, domiciliate, endometrial, endothelium, indomitable, lobotomised, lobotomized, malediction, maledictory, mediational, metabolized, metalloidal, meteoroidal, molybdenite, moonlighted, multicoated, nematocidal, thalidomide, tolbutamide. | |
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