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nounadvocates or supporters of established custom or of conservatism: a military man of the old school. Origin of old schoolFirst recorded in 1790–1800 OTHER WORDS FROM old schoolold-school, adjectiveWords nearby old schoolold rose, Old Russian, Olds, old saw, Old Saxon, old school, old school tie, Old Scratch, old shoe, old skool, Old Slavic Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for old schoolThe 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 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
nounmainly 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 Words related to old schoolacceptable, accustomed, classic, classical, conservative, conventional, customary, habitual, old, popular, regular, rooted, time-honored, old line, conforming, old-fashioned, past, traditional, unprogressive, leftovers |