Old World

the Old World

1. The Eastern Hemisphere, especially Europe, Africa and Asia.
2. The known world before the discovery of the Americas.
   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:

     Over the mind of the tourist, visiting the Old World for the first time,—countries where have transpired thrilling events recorded in history, what an immensity of thought and feeling sweeps!

   • 2021-2022 Winter, James R. Poplar III, “America: The Great Experiment in Human Governance”, in SAR Magazine, volume 116, number 3, Louisville, KY: Sons of the American Revolution, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:

     When our Founding Fathers broke with the old world, America indeed was an experiment, and history has shown that such experiments were tried on few occasions but previously failed.

• New World

• Old World monkey
• Old World ROM

• old-world (adj)

• world-old