Old World

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Old World

that part of the world that was known before the discovery of the Americas, comprising Europe, Asia, and Africa; the eastern hemisphere

Old World

the common name for the three parts of the world known to the ancients: Europe, Asia, and Africa. The term is usually used in contrast to the New World.

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No references found			In 1633, and the year afterwards, the small-pox broke out among the Massachusetts Indians, multitudes of whom died by this terrible disease of the Old World. Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context The gate was then closed, and the girl found herself back in the old world close to her mother's house. Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context The Atlantic is a Lethean stream, in our passage over which we have had an opportunity to forget the Old World and its institutions. Walking by Thoreau, Henry David View in context			old snow Old South Arabic Old Spanish Days Old Spanish National Historic Trail Old Stone Age Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park Old Style Old Style dates old talk Old Testament Old Town San Diego State Historic Park Old Turkic Old Uighur Old Vic Old Vic London Shakespeare Old Vic Theater Old Washington Historic State Park old wives' summer Old Wives' Tale, The Old Woman Old Woman of Gloucester Old Woman of Leeds old woman who lived in a shoe old wood old workings Old World Old World monkey Old World Rabbit Old Yeller old-age pension old-man's-beard Old-Squaw OLDAS Oldbuck, Jonathan Oldcastle Oldcastle, Sir John Oldenbarneveldt Oldenbarneveldt, Jan Van Oldenbarneveldt, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van Oldenburg Oldenburg Horse Oldenburg, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Oldenburg, Sergei Oldenburg, Sergei Fedorovich Older, Fremont Olderogge, Dmitrii Olderogge, Dmitrii Alekseevich Oldfather, William Abbott Oldfield, Anne			Old Westminster Citizen Association Old Westminster Citizens Football Club Old White Guy Old wife Old wife's tale old witch grass old witchgrass Old wive's tale old wives Old wives tale Old wives tale Old Wives' summer Old Wives' summer old wives' tale old wives' tale Old Wives' Tale, The old wives' tales old woman old woman Old Woman of Gloucester Old Woman of Leeds Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Old Woman's Tooth old women old women Old wood Old Wood Working Machines Old woodworking machinery old workings Old World Old World Archaeological Study Unit Old World Archaeology Newsletter Old World babbler Old World babbler Old World beaver Old World buffalo Old World chat Old World climbing fern Old World Conference in Phonology Old World coot Old World coral snake Old World crayfish Old World flycatcher Old World flycatcher Old World flycatchers Old World fruit bat Old World German Sausage, Inc. Old World hop hornbeam Old World Industries Old World jay Old World least weasel Old World leishmaniasis Old World leishmaniasis Old World mistletoe Old World monkey Old World monkey Old World monkey Old World monkey Old World monkeys Old World monkeys

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