old school
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4.6
- noun
- /oʊld skuːl/
- Informal
:
de la vieja escuela
- My grandparents are considered old school because they still believe in using landlines for communication.
He seems to come out of the old school kind of Beatles school of.
- He seems to come out of the old school kind of Beatles school of.
- A good place to start is old school Maxwell Maltz, Psycho Cybernetics.
- No, I'll just take old school all day.
Examples
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And yes, there is an actual metal key, an old school looking car key.
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You know, your dad was old school.
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Now we're saying old school is the way to go.
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I love a good old school New York accent.
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And they were old school guys who were specialists in it.
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Yet, at the same time, much of the old school's dismantling was beyond its control.
Academic text (1996) -
Is that any way to talk to an old school chum?
Fiction book (1998) -
So this is an old school introductory textbook.
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Dad signed me up for some old-school lacrosse camp.
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Let's go old school.
Synonyms
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7.0
A group of longtime members who resist new ideas
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A person with old-fashioned ideas who refuses to change
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A person who prefers old ways and does not like change
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A person who prefers the usual way of doing things and does not accept new ideas
A person who prefers traditional ways and customs
A person who opposes modern ideas and prefers traditional ways
Antonyms
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'traditional; from an earlier style or group' can be partially derived from 'old' (not new) combined with an extended sense of 'school' as a style or group (e.g., a 'school' of thought). This requires a metaphorical extension of 'school' beyond the literal educational institution and some cultural knowledge (though many languages have similar phrases like 'vieja escuela'), so learners can often guess it but not fully predict it without prior exposure.
Etymology
Old school may come from the image of an old school — a classroom with chalkboards, strict rules and old ways of teaching. People called old school are like that classroom: they prefer 'traditional' methods and ideas, so the phrase means someone who supports older ways.