time-honored

time-honored
    adj 1: acceptable for a long time; "time-honored customs" [syn:
           {time-honored}, {time-honoured}]
    2: honored because of age or long usage; "time-honored
       institutions" [syn: {time-honored}, {time-honoured}]
    

Time-honored \Time"-hon`ored\ (t[imac]m"[o^]n`[~e]rd), a.
   Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by
   reason of antiquity, or long continuance.
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66 Moby Thesaurus words for "time-honored":
      accepted, acknowledged, admitted, age-old, august, awe-inspiring,
      awesome, awful, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, current,
      customary, dreadful, established, estimable, everyday, familiar,
      fixed, folk, generally accepted, habitual, hallowed, handed down,
      heroic, hoary, honorable, honored, immemorial, inveterate,
      legendary, long-established, long-standing, mythological, normal,
      obtaining, of long standing, of the folk, oral, ordinary, popular,
      prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, received, recognized, regular,
      regulation, respected, revered, reverend, rooted, set, standard,
      stock, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood,
      unwritten, usual, venerable, venerated, widespread, wonted,
      worshipful