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Definitions: Time-honored |
Time-honoredAdjective1. Honored because of age or long usage; "time-honored institutions". 2. Of long standing and acceptance; "time-honored customs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "time-honored" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
Synonym: Time-honoredSynonym: time-honoured (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Oldness | Adjective: old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable; elder, eldest; firstborn. |
Respect | Respected;Verb: in high esteem, in high estimation; time-honored, venerable, emeritus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Time-honored |
| English words defined with "time-honored": traditional. (references) |
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 | Pollywog following the time-honored tradition of "kissing the baby" during Equator crossing ceremony. After passing all the necessary tests, the pollywog will become a bona fide Shellback and able to initiate pollywogs during future Equator crossing ceremonies. On board the NOAA Ship DAVID STARR JORDAN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Plowing up and down hills was a time-honored plowing method that lead to high erosion rates on farmland. Today, conservation-minded farmers farm on the contour to help reduce ersoion of topsoil. Credit: Unknown. |
 | On the 300-square-mile Jornada Experimental Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico, technicians rob Dunlap (left) and John Smith round up cattle the time-honored way. High-tech equipment may make roundups easier in the future. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Henry James | The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Health | Applicable to almost all such patients, the extensive experience with this time-honored operation makes it the standard with which all other procedures must be compared. (references) | |
Economic History | Czech Rep | Executive recruiting firms are active in Prague, though most executives use the time-honored word-of-mouth method in making hiring decisions. (references) |
Minorities | Ghana | Traditionalists believe that their time-honored customs should be accorded due respect, while some Christians resent the imposition of bans, which they believe infringes on their right to worship. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 | Elected by the American people to the highest office known to our laws, I appear here to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, and, in compliance with a time-honored custom, to address those who are now assembled. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "time-honored"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | igen régi (time-honoured), hagyományos (academic, conventional, devisee, time honored, time-honoured, traditional, traditionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ime-honoredtay освященный веками (time honored, time-honoured). (various references) เก่าแก่มาก (antediluvian, immemorial). (various references) được kính chuộng do lâu đời (time-honoured). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Time-honored" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: timehonoured. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "time-honored" (pronounced 'Time"-hon`ored'): Ash-colored, Cream-colored, Flame-colored, High-colored, Liver-colored, Peach-colored, rose-colored, Straw-colored. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-m-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: endotherm, meteoroid, monitored, rhodonite. | |
-3 letters: demotion, dethrone, domineer, dormient, enrooted, entoderm, hereinto, mentored, mothered, motioned, motioner, odometer, oriented, reminted, remotion, theremin, thermion, threnode. | |
-4 letters: demerit, demeton, dhootie, diether, dimeter, doormen, emeroid, emotion, ermined, erodent, ethmoid, heirdom, herdmen, heroine, homered, honored, honoree, hoodier, hootier, hordein, hormone, hornito, inhered, ionomer, merited, minored, mitered, moderne, moidore. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-i-m-n-o-o-r-t" | |
+4 letters: echinodermatous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 69 6D 65 2D 68 6F 6E 6F 72 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101001 01101101 01100101 00101101 01101000 01101111 01101110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T i m e - h o n o r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0069 006D 0065 002D 0068 006F 006E 006F 0072 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547579711574818081847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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