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Definition of Old-time
1. Adjective. Attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic). "A vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
Definition of Old-time
1. Adjective. From or reminiscent of an earlier time or era; old-fashioned. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old-time
Literary usage of Old-time
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1906)
"BY CAPTAIN HAROLD HAMMOND, USA HOW PINKEY REVIVED AN old-time FEUD. RELATIONS between
the boys of Enterprise ever the swimming fever took and the town ..."
2. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"And to the little conduit by Paule's gate, from whence of old time the said high
... Now from the north to the south this city was of old time divided, ..."
3. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"NO TIME LIKE THE OLD TIME THERE is no time like the old time, when you and I were
young, When the buds of April blossomed, and the birds of spring-time sung ..."
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