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old world
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Princeton's WordNet
Old Worldadjective
the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas
old-worldadjective
characteristic of former times especially in Europe
"an old-world cottage"
GCIDE
Old Worldnoun
The combined territories of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Eastern Hemisphere, as distinguished from The Americas, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Wiktionary
Old Worldnoun
The Eastern Hemisphere, especially Europe and the Near East.
Old Worldnoun
The known world before the discovery of the Americas.
Wikipedia
Old World
The "Old World" (Latin: Mundus Vetus) is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe c. 1596, after Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas. It is used to contrast the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia, which were previously thought of by their inhabitants as comprising the entire world, with the "New World", a term for the newly encountered lands of the Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.
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old world
The "Old World" is a term often used to refer to Africa, Europe, and Asia (or the Eastern Hemisphere), regarded collectively as the part of the world known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas. This term is often contrasted with the "New World," which refers to the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas.
Wikidata
Old World
The Old World consists of Europe, Asia, and Africa, regarded collectively as the part of the world known to Europeans before the European contact of the Americas. It is used in the context of, and contrast with, the New World. In the context of archaeology and world history, the term "Old World" includes those parts of the world which were in cultural contact from the Bronze Age onwards, resulting in the parallel development of the early civilizations, mostly in the temperate zone between roughly the 45th and 25th parallels, in the area of the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, the Persian plateau, India and China. These regions were connected via the Silk Road trade route, and they have a pronounced Iron Age period following the Bronze Age. In cultural terms, the Iron Age was accompanied by the so-called Axial Age, referring to cultural, philosophical and religious developments eventually leading to the emergence of the historical Western, Eastern and Far Eastern cultural spheres. The concept of the three continents in the Old World, viz. Asia, Africa, Europe goes back to classical antiquity. Their boundaries as defined by Ptolemy and other geographers of antiquity were drawn along the Nile and Don rivers. This definition remained influential throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of old world in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of old world in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of old world in a Sentence
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Wine in the U.S. in general is expensive. It’s also true of California. In many cases you can get an old world version for much less. That’s a somewhat intractable problem…It’s just expensive to do business in the United States.
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
Our data suggests that dogs were domesticated twice, on both sides of the Old World, this suggests that at least two group of humans independently came to the same conclusion: dogs can be domesticated. It also suggests that the process of domestication, while mostly rare, may be replicated more often than we think.
Every industry in the world is being disrupted, to some extent knowing how to do it really well in the old world is not always an advantage for how to do it in the new.
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