What Part of Speech Is Old Fashioned

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noun

(sometimes initial capital letter letters) a cocktail made with whiskey, bitters, water, and saccharide, and garnished with citrus-fruit slices and a cherry.

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Origin of quondam fashioned

Beginning recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby old fashioned

olde-worlde, quondam confront, One-time True-blue, oldfangled, old fart, old fashioned, old beau, old field, old-field colt, Old Flemish, quondam fogy

Other definitions for old fashioned (2 of two)

old-fashioned

[ ohld-fash-uhnd ]

/ ˈoʊldˈfæʃ ənd /

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describing word

of a fashion or kind that is no longer in faddy: an old-fashioned bathing accommodate.

favored or prevalent in quondam times: former-fashioned ideas.

having the bourgeois behavior, means, ideas, or tastes of before times: a delightfully erstwhile-fashioned gentleman.

Origin of old-fashioned

First recorded in 1645–55

synonym study for old-fashioned

OTHER WORDS FROM erstwhile-fashioned

old-fash·ioned·ly, adverb erstwhile-fash·ioned·ness, substantive

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Words related to old fashioned

ancient, antiquated, obsolete, old-fashioned, outmoded, primitive, antique, primitive, feudal, stale, threadbare, out-of-date, age-old, crumbling, former, old-fourth dimension, original, traditional, venerable, corny

How to apply old fashioned in a sentence

• "This is a very different mindset from old fashioned direction," added Edmonson.

• Later 146 applications she's accepted a chore, just they hired her the old fashioned way.

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• They could get the aforementioned, if not better, data by using old fashioned methods of counting people and cars.

• The Internet has proven fertile ground for sprouting new markets and super-charging some former fashioned ones, whether for brusk-term stays, car rides across town, or selling your collection of Beanie Babies.

• So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop vocal at a nigh ungodly hour.

• It would became ane of the offset smashing mysteries in the United states of america of America, equally it was simply and so 23 years old.

• To borrow an former right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

• He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old ring.

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• Davy looked around and saw an old human being coming toward them beyond the lawn.

• His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy route.

• Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the business firm of Grains were at the head of the table.

• Vicars' wives had come and gone, only all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to sometime Mrs. Wurzel'due south sway.

• But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this twenty-four hour period.

British Dictionary definitions for old fashioned

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adjective

belonging to, characteristic of, or favoured by former times; outdated onetime-fashioned ideas

favouring or adopting the clothes, manners, fashions, etc, of a former time

quizzically doubtful or disapproving she did not reply, but gave him an former-fashioned look

Scot and Northern English dialect one-time for one's age an old-fashioned child

substantive

a cocktail containing spirit, bitters, fruit, etc

Derived forms of quondam-fashioned

old-fashionedly, adverb

Collins English Lexicon - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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