time-honoured
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.70 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The formation of sulphuric acid is inhibited in the presence of metallic oxides and the method of application in this instance would really be no more difficult than the time-honoured trick of sprinkling sand on the fire to clean the tubes."
- "I was also interested to hear that he is taking over the time-honoured Rail Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland, following Stuart Baker's death in November 2020."
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more time-honoured (comparative)
most time-honoured (superlative)