time-honored

Definitions

Respected and valued because of long-standing tradition.

Established or practiced for a long period of time.

Examples

The university maintains the time-honored tradition of ringing the bell after every graduation ceremony.

She relied on a time-honored recipe passed down through four generations of her family.

Synonyms

long-established venerable traditional age-old time-tested historic customary

Antonyms

new modern novel unprecedented contemporary innovative recent