OLD-TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old-time mean? 

• OLD-TIME (adjective)
  The adjective OLD-TIME has 1 sense:

1. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)

  Familiarity information: OLD-TIME used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD-TIME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)

Synonyms:

old-time; olde worlde; quaint

Context example:

a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots

Similar:

fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)

 Context examples 

It recovered its old-time solidarity, and once more the dogs leaped as one dog in the traces.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The old-time thrill at receiving a publisher's check was gone.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All sullenness and defiance disappeared, and he talked sociably with his captors, and even with flashes of his old-time wit.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Let the matter be brought to an issue then according to our old-time monastic habit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All my old-time marvel at life returned to me at sight of this splendid incarnation of it, and Wolf Larsen’s cold explanation of life and its meaning was truly ridiculous and laughable.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But alas! there was one authority which was higher even than that of the referee, and we were destined to an experience which was the prelude, and sometimes the conclusion, also, of many an old-time fight.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The face of Jim O’Brien, a Mastodon King and old-time comrade, caught his eyes.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Say, Joe, was his greeting to his old-time working-mate next morning, there's a Frenchman out on Twenty-eighth Street.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I doubt not, Terlake, that you will show yourself a worthy son of a valiant father; and you, Ford, of yours; and you, Edricson, that you are mindful of the old-time house from which all men know that you are sprung.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)