Word Meanings - TIME-HONORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TIME-HONORED)

• Aged
• Old
• ancient
• antiquated
• elderly
• senile
• patriarchal
• primeval
• time-honored
• olden
• Ancient
• oldfashioned
• antique
• obsolete
• old-time
• aged
• primordial
• immemorial

Related words: (words related to TIME-HONORED)

• PRIMORDIALLY
  At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
• ANTIQUATION
  The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• OBSOLETENESS
  Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
• ANTIQUATED
  Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
• OBSOLETE
  Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old; disused; neglected. See Ancient. (more info) 1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected;
• ANTIQUENESS
  The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.
• PRIMORDIAL
  A first principle or element.
• SENILE
  Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment." Boyle. Senile gangrene , a form of gangrene occuring particularly
• ANTIQUELY
  In an antique manner.
• PRIMEVAL
  Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.
• ANTIQUE
  1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser. 2. Old, as respects the present age, or a modern
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• OBSOLETELY
  In an obsolete manner.
• IMMEMORIALLY
  Beyond memory. Bentley.
• OLDEN
  Old; ancient; as, the olden time. "A minstrel of the olden stamp." J. C. Shairp.
• ANCIENTRY
  1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
• IMMEMORIAL
  Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial. "Immemorial elms." Tennyson. "Immemorial usage or custom." Sir M. Hale. Time immemorial , a time antedating history, and beyond
• ENCOLDEN
  To render cold.
• GOLDEN
  1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
• VERD ANTIQUE
  A mottled-green serpentine marble. A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.
• YOLDEN
  Yielded.
• EMBOLDENER
  One who emboldens.
• IMBOLDEN
  See EMBOLDEN
• UNYOLDEN
  Not yielded. " force . . . is he taken unyolden." Sir T. Browne.
• BOLDEN
  To make bold; to encourage; to embolden. Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study. Ascham.
• GOLDEN-EYE
  A duck , found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America is less common.