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{
"term": "oldfashioned",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "not modern; no longer fashionable",
"labels": "(sometimes disapproving)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "old-fashioned clothes/styles/methods/equipment"
},
{
"text": "These sweets are still made in the old-fashioned way."
},
{
"text": "The Winnedumah Hotel has old-fashioned charm."
},
{
"text": "His clothes were curiously old-fashioned."
},
{
"text": "Critics regarded her films as hopelessly old-fashioned."
},
{
"text": "The whole room looked old-fashioned."
},
{
"text": "The hotel is quaint and old-fashioned."
},
{
"text": "Wearing a hat is now regarded as rather old-fashioned."
},
{
"text": "It was a lovely little old-fashioned cafe."
},
{
"text": "The bedroom was full of heavy old-fashioned furniture."
},
{
"text": "Working methods in the department were ridiculously old-fashioned until we went over to computers."
},
{
"text": "It was plain old-fashioned instinct, the gut feeling that something was wrong."
},
{
"text": "old-fashioned notions of honour"
}
],
"synonyms": "dated",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["in"],
"phrases": ["call me old-fashioned", "a good old-fashioned…"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "believing in old or traditional ways; having traditional ideas",
"labels": "(sometimes disapproving)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "My parents are old-fashioned about relationships and marriage."
},
{
"text": "She wants to be an old-fashioned mother, staying at home and looking after the children."
},
{
"text": "**Call me old-fashioned, but** I still believe in good manners."
},
{
"text": "She's somewhat old-fashioned in her attitudes."
},
{
"text": "He seemed too old-fashioned and formal."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["in"],
"phrases": ["call me old-fashioned", "a good old-fashioned…"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "simple, traditional and good quality",
"sensetop": "good old-fashioned…",
"labels": "(approving)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "At heart, it's just a good old-fashioned detective story."
},
{
"text": "What's needed is some good old-fashioned common sense."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌəʊld ˈfæʃnd/",
"audio": "ol/oldfashioned/old_fashioned_1_gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌəʊld ˈfæʃnd/",
"audio": "ol/oldfashioned/old_fashioned__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}