old school

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   a class of people favoring traditional ideas

   Broaderclass

Questions about old school

What does old school mean?

old school means "a class of people favoring traditional ideas".

Is old school a common word?

old school is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.