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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Old Worldadjective

    the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas

  2. old-worldadjective

    characteristic of former times especially in Europe

    "an old-world cottage"

GCIDE

  1. Old Worldnoun

    The combined territories of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Eastern Hemisphere, as distinguished from The Americas, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.

Wiktionary

  1. Old Worldnoun

    The Eastern Hemisphere, especially Europe and the Near East.

  2. Old Worldnoun

    The known world before the discovery of the Americas.

Wikipedia

  1. 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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  1. 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

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of old world in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of old world in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of old world in a Sentence

  1. Dara Khosrowshahi:

    The platforms are extending into every part of our life and creating superpowers within them, if you communicate something in the old world, you can get it to five people. These platforms allow you to communicate to a million. That realization has created, I think, now the responsibility for all of the platform builders to take responsibility for the content on your platform.

  2. Lucinda Williams:

    I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

  3. Micky Dolenz:

    Old World meets the New World kind of thing.

  4. Marc Friedland:

    We actually use a lot of Old World craft to make these. So the dyes, the printing, the labor, the hand-wrapping makes them really interesting, i love the combination of Old World craft and modern day technology.

  5. Christopher Wilson:

    We're still thinking about migration with a vision that's maybe 20 years old at this point. We're not -- as the public or even as policymakers -- catching up fully, the ground has shifted beneath our feet, and we're still operating as if it's the old world.

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