单词 | old-time |
释义 | old-time1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something as old-time, you mean that it was common or popular in the past but is not common or popular now. ...an old-time dance hall which still has a tea dance on Monday afternoons. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You can use old-time before the name of someone's job to show that they do their job in the way it was done in the past. The effect of that singing, as the old-time reporters used to say, was electrical. ...like an old-time sailor climbing the rigging. More Synonyms of old-time old-time in British Englishadjective (prenominal) of or relating to a former time; old-fashioned old-time movies old-time in American English (ˈoʊldˈtaɪm; ˈoʊldˌtaɪm) adjective 1. of, like, or characteristic of past times 2. of long standing or experience an old-time journalist Examples of 'old-time' in a sentence |
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