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Europe, Asia and Africa
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old world
Word definitions for old world in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Old World consists of Africa , Europe , and Asia , regarded collectively as the part of the world known to Europeans before contact with the Americas . It is used in the context of, and contrast with, the New World ( Americas ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Old World \Old World\ n. The combined territories of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Eastern Hemisphere, as distinguished from The Americas, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
of or pertaining to Eurasia and Africa, as opposed to the Americas, 1877.
Usage examples of old world.
More than one sort of power had been in use on this somber continent of an old, old world.
Momentarily she saw it for what it was, an old animal in an old world, without direction.
And he went on to the severe profanities which afflicted mankind after the Old World fell.
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?
It was the time in which many of the petty kingdoms of the old world had been unifiedmostly against their will.
It was the time in which many of the petty kingdoms of the old world had been unified-mostly against their will.
On the pine-fringed ridge of the Galenas, among those granite cliffs and jagged peaks, the mettle of his manhood was to be tried under a strain such as few men in this commonplace work-a-day old world are-subjected to.
This development of life seems to have been an exclusively old world development, and it was only apparently at the end of the Old Stone Age that human beings first made their way across the land connexion that is now cut by Behring Straits, into the American continent.
The Surprises were glad to have their letters carried back to the Old World.
The world into which he had fallen was in one sense an old world, and in another a new one.