old style
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The Julian calendar system, especially with reference to Russia, where it continued to be used until the early 20th century.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns — a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms — days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average."
- "As the [Manx] people reckon this festival according to the Old Style, Hollantide in the Isle of Man is our twelfth of November."