Old World

See also: old-world

English

Proper noun

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.

Antonyms

• New World

Derived terms

• Old World monkey
• Old World ROM

Related terms

• old-world (adj)

Translations

the Eastern Hemisphere, especially Europe, Africa and Asia

• Arabic: الْعَالَم الْقَدِيم m (al-ʕālam al-qadīm) (definite)
• Armenian: հին աշխարհ (hy) (hin ašxarh)
• Azerbaijani: Köhnə dünya
• Belarusian: Стары́ Свет m (Starý Svjet), Стары́ Сьвет m (Starý Sʹvjet)
• Bengali: কদিম জাহান (kodim jahan)
• Bulgarian: Стар свят m (Star svjat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舊大陸／旧大陆 (zh) (Jiù Dàlù), 舊世界／旧世界 (Jiù Shìjiè)

• Czech: Starý svět m
• Danish: den gamle verden c (definite)
• Dutch: Oude Wereld (nl) m or f
• Estonian: Vana Maailm
• Finnish: Vanha Maailma
• French: Ancien Monde (fr) m, Vieux Monde m
• Galician: Vello Mundo m
• Georgian: ძველი სამყარო (ʒveli samq̇aro), ძველი მსოფლიო (ʒveli msoplio)
• German: Alte Welt (de) f
• Greek: Παλαιός Κόσμος (el) m (Palaiós Kósmos)
• Hindi: पुरानी दुनिया f (purānī duniyā)
• Indonesian: Dunia Lama
• Italian: Vecchio mondo m
• Japanese: 旧世界 (きゅうせかい, Kyūsekai), 旧大陸 (ja) (きゅうたいりく, Kyūtairiku)
• Kazakh: Ескі Дүние (Eskı Dünie)
• Korean: 구세계(舊世界) (ko) (Gusegye), 구대륙(舊大陸) (ko) (Gudaeryuk)
• Kyrgyz: Эски Дүйнө (Eski Düynö)
• Latvian: Vecā pasaule f
• Lithuanian: Senasis pasaulis m
• Macedonian: Стар Свет m (Star Svet)
• Malay: Dunia Lama
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: den gamle verden m (definite)

• Persian:

  Classical Persian: جَهَانِ قَدِیم (jahān-i qadīm)

  Iranian Persian: جَهانِ قَدیم (jahân-e ğadim)

• Polish: Stary Świat (pl) m
• Portuguese: Velho Mundo (pt) m
• Romanian: Lumea Veche f
• Russian: Ста́рый Свет (ru) m (Stáryj Svet)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Стари свет m, Стари свијет m

  Roman: Stari svet m, Stari svijet m

• Slovak: Starý svet m
• Slovene: Stari svet m
• Spanish: Viejo Continente m, Antiguo Continente m, Mundo Antiguo m, Viejo Mundo m
• Swedish: gamla världen c (definite)
• Tajik: Дунёи қадим (Dunyoyi qadim)
• Thai: โลกเก่า (lôok-gào)
• Turkish: Eski Dünya (tr)
• Ukrainian: Стари́й Світ m (Starýj Svit)
• Urdu: قَدِیمِ دُنِیا f (qadīm-i duniyā)
• Uzbek: Eski dunyo
• Vietnamese: Cựu Thế giới (舊世界)

Anagrams

• world-old