The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. honored because of great age, or long usage alt. honored because of great age, or long usage
WordNet
adj. honored because of age or long usage; "time-honored institutions" [syn: time-honoured]
of long standing and acceptance; "time-honored customs" [syn: time-honoured]
Usage examples of "time-honored".
One night following their time-honored route along the south bank of the Zambezi, his dam had stopped abruptly at the front of the herd and lifted her trunk at full stretch above her head to scent the air.
As the tech counted her down on his fingers in the time-honored way, the President touched the simple necklace at her throat, but she resisted the temptation to adjust the black hair, now threaded with silver, that her makeup artist had spent so long sculpting.
There, they began clapping in the time-honored effort to distract the dancer.