Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj. 1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time. Opposite of modern. [Narrower terms: antebellum; fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal), stodgy old-fashioned; medieval, mediaeval, gothic; old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian; old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world] Also See: old, past.
old-world \old-world\ adj.
Characteristic of former times especially in Europe; as, an old-world cottage.
(Biology) Native to the Old World; not found in the Americas; as, old-world monkeys.
Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to the ancient world or former times
WordNet
adj. characteristic of former times especially in Europe; "an old-world cottage"
Usage examples of "old-world".
The last of the old-world Puritans, he departed poring over his well-thumbed Bible, and proclaiming that the troubles of his country arose, not from his own narrow and corrupt administration, but from some departure on the part of his fellow burghers from the stricter tenets of the dopper sect.
So having well digested the facts, stupendous as they might have appeared in an old-world place like the Leys, that the escort had been robbed, policemen shot, the gold carried off and partly recovered, Harry Pole, of No.
She would treat it as a recipe, a long, complicated old-world recipe, or perhaps directions for reupholstering a couch.
Another wore a robe of regal purple, sewn with silver stars and symbols seeming those of an old-world wizard.
The abode of the Misses Tripp turned out to be a picturesque cottageso extremely old-world and picturesque that it looked as though it might collapse any minute.
The words dared Annette to probe into the sexuality of a paraplegic, which, being old-world in that sense, Annette would not do.
XXII Familiar, still unseized, the forest sprang An old-world echo, like no mortal thing.
Burgess had met Lucio Giorgi before, and had not disliked the man: he carried his age with an old-world courtliness which Burgess admired.
So perhaps might some old-world portrait have appeared, had it stept down from its frame against the wall.
If you have a bishop or an antiquary or something of that sort coming to lunch you just mention the fact when you are ordering the garden, and you get an old-world pleasaunce, with clipped yew hedges and a sun-dial and hollyhocks, and perhaps a mulberry tree, and borders of sweet-williams and Canterbury bells, and an old-fashioned beehive or two tucked away in a corner.
It had an old-world charm, a lot of chintz and the same waitresses year after year.
Dressed in her corporate shoulder pads, she came across as so strong, so dynamic, she looked as if she might be an aerobics nutall freckles and sinewbut the sleeveless black cocktail dress she was wearing revealed a paleness, a pearly sheen, that struck Ford as exotic, distinctly old-world.
The drive opened out into a wooded park with a gaunt, battlemented mansion set amid the broken terraces and parterres of that saddest of all spectacles, an old-world garden run to wilderness and bathed in the red glow of the setting sun.
A wide blue cloak, a squat and sturdy throng Of curt blue coats, a mutch without a speck, A white vest broidered black, her person deck, Nor seems their picked, stern, old-world quaintness wrong.
He heard with Jacques Cartier's sense the blare of his followers' trumpets down in the open square of the barbarous city, where the soldiers of many an Old-World fight, "with mustached lip and bearded chin, with arquebuse and glittering halberd, helmet, and cuirass," moved among the plumed and painted savages.