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Meaning of time-honored | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

Honored because of great age, or long usage.

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Equivalents

العربية أزلي
Suomi koeteltu kunnianarvoisa perinteikäs
Português consagrado pelo tempo consagrado pelo uso
Svenska beprövad hävdvunnen

Examples

“It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

time-honoured time-independent time-intensive time-invariant time-killing time-lapse

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