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old-fashioned
English
Alternative forms
- old fashioned
Etymology
old +? fashion +? -ed
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /o?ld?fæ??nd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??ld?fæ??nd/
- Hyphenation: old-?fash?ioned
Adjective
old-fashioned (comparative more old-fashioned, superlative most old-fashioned)
- Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
- Synonyms: date, oldfangled, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:unfashionable
- Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.
Antonyms
- new-fashioned
Hypernyms
- fashioned
Derived terms
- old-fashionedly
- old-fashioned look
- old-fashionedness
Translations
Noun
old-fashioned (plural old-fashioneds)
- A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind. [from late 19th c.]
- 1996, Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
- At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds.
- 1996, Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
Further reading
- old fashioned (cocktail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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archaic
English
Alternative forms
- archæic (old-fashioned)
- archaeic (rare or old-fashioned)
- archaïc
- archaick (obsolete)
Etymology
From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ??????? (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ???? (arkh?, “beginning, origin”), from ???? (árkh?, “I am first”), from ???? (árkh?, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erg?- (“to begin, rule, command”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
Noun
archaic (plural archaics)
- (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American?paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
- 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
- [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
- 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
- (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
- 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
- [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
- 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
Adjective
archaic (comparative more archaic, superlative most archaic)
- Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
- (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
- (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period
Synonyms
- (old-fashioned): dated, obsolete, old fashioned; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Derived terms
- archaically, archaism, archaicy
Related terms
Translations
References
- archaic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “archaic”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
- The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 1998
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- arachic
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