Crossword clues for old world
old world
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Old \Old\, a. [Compar. Older; superl. Oldest.] [OE. old, ald, AS. ald, eald; akin to D. oud, OS. ald, OFries. ald, old, G. alt, Goth. alpeis, and also to Goth. alan to grow up, Icel. ala to bear, produce, bring up, L. alere to nourish. Cf. Adult, Alderman, Aliment, Auld, Elder.]
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Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.
Let not old age disgrace my high desire.
--Sir P. Sidney.The melancholy news that we grow old.
--Young. Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship. ``An old acquaintance.''
--Camden.Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise. ``The old schools of Greece.''
--Milton. ``The character of the old Ligurians.''
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Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
--Cen. xlvii. 8.Note: In this use old regularly follows the noun that designates the age; as, she was eight years old.
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Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.
Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old.
--Milton. Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.
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More than enough; abundant. [Obs.]
If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key.
--Shak. Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.
Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
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Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and familiarity. ``Go thy ways, old lad.'' --Shak. Old age, advanced years; the latter period of life. Old bachelor. See Bachelor,
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Old Catholics. See under Catholic.
Old English. See under English. n.,
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Old Nick, Old Scratch, the devil. Old lady (Zo["o]l.), a large European noctuid moth ( Mormo maura). Old maid.
A woman, somewhat advanced in years, who has never been married; a spinster.
(Bot.) A West Indian name for the pink-flowered periwinkle ( Vinca rosea).
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A simple game of cards, played by matching them. The person with whom the odd card is left is the old maid. Old man's beard. (Bot.)
The traveler's joy ( Clematis Vitalba). So named from the abundant long feathery awns of its fruit.
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The Tillandsia usneoides. See Tillandsia. Old man's head (Bot.), a columnar cactus ( Pilocereus senilis), native of Mexico, covered towards the top with long white hairs. Old red sandstone (Geol.), a series of red sandstone rocks situated below the rocks of the Carboniferous age and comprising various strata of siliceous sandstones and conglomerates. See Sandstone, and the Chart of Geology. Old school, a school or party belonging to a former time, or preserving the character, manner, or opinions of a former time; as, a gentleman of the old school; -- used also adjectively; as, Old-School Presbyterians. Old sledge, an old and well-known game of cards, called also all fours, and high, low, Jack, and the game. Old squaw (Zo["o]l.), a duck ( Clangula hyemalis) inhabiting the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is varied with black and white and is remarkable for the length of its tail. Called also longtailed duck, south southerly, callow, hareld, and old wife. Old style. (Chron.) See the Note under Style. Old Testament. See Old Testament under Testament, and see tanak. Old wife. [In the senses b and c written also oldwife.]
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A prating old woman; a gossip.
Refuse profane and old wives' fables.
--1 Tim. iv. 7. (Zo["o]l.) The local name of various fishes, as the European black sea bream ( Cantharus lineatus), the American alewife, etc.
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(Zo["o]l.) A duck; the old squaw.
Old World, the Eastern Hemisphere.
Syn: Aged; ancient; pristine; primitive; antique; antiquated; old-fashioned; obsolete. See Ancient.
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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
of or pertaining to Eurasia and Africa, as opposed to the Americas, 1877.
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 Old World is a historic reference to those parts of Earth known to Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus; it includes Europe, Asia and Africa.
Old World may also refer to:
- Old World (Warhammer)
- Old World ROM
- World order (also Old World Order), the current operating system of the world as opposed to the New World Order conspiracy theory.
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.