: honored because of age or long usage time-honored traditions.

What Does It Mean time-honoured?

adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A time-honoured tradition or way of doing something is one that has been used and respected for a very long time.

What does a time-honoured practice mean?

A time-honoured tradition, practice, or method is respected because it has been done or used in the same way for many years: humorous The developers dealt with the problem in the time-honoured fashion/way, burying the industrial waste in landfill sites.