OLD SCHOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old school mean? 

• OLD SCHOOL (noun)
  The noun OLD SCHOOL has 1 sense:

1. a class of people favoring traditional ideas

  Familiarity information: OLD SCHOOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD SCHOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A class of people favoring traditional ideas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("old school" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

 Context examples 

On the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school companion, Henry Jekyll.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“On my word, sir!” I returned, answering in our old school manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"That's good! I wish all the girls would leave, and spoil his old school. It's perfectly maddening to think of those lovely limes," sighed Amy, with the air of a martyr.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Somehow, in spite of his prowess, his old school name of Boy had clung very naturally to him, until that instant when I saw him standing in his self-contained and magnificent manhood in the doorway of the ancient house.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was, to lie behind the wall at the back of my old school, in a corner where there used to be a haystack.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)