oldschool
German, adjective/ˈɔʊ̯ldskuːl/
oldschool is spelled O-L-D-S-C-H-O-O-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,028th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oldschool is a German adjective meaning “old school” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “so wie es früher üblich war, aber heute nicht mehr modern ist (mit sentimentalem Bezug auf diese frühere Zeit)”.
What does oldschool mean in English?
adjective
- 1
derogatoryinformalold school
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. so wie es früher üblich war, aber heute nicht mehr modern ist (mit sentimentalem Bezug auf diese frühere Zeit)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of oldschool
- oldschooler masculine nominative singular
- oldschoole feminine nominative singular
- oldschooles neuter nominative singular
- oldschoolen genitive masculine singular
- oldschoolem dative masculine singular
- der oldschoole definite includes-article masculine
- die oldschoole definite feminine includes-article
- das oldschoole definite includes-article neuter
- die oldschoolen definite includes-article nominative
- des oldschoolen definite genitive includes-article
- der oldschoolen definite feminine genitive
- dem oldschoolen dative definite includes-article
- den oldschoolen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oldschool?
- /ˈɔʊ̯ldskuːl/
- [ˈɔʊ̯ldˌskuːl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is oldschool in German?
oldschool appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).