Definition of Old-world

1. Adjective. Characteristic of former times especially in Europe. "An old-world cottage"

Similar to: Nonmodern

Definition of Old-world

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to the ancient world or former times ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old-world

old-maidisms
old-man
old-man-of-the-woods
old-men
old-oil
old-school
old-sweat
old-sweats
old-time
old-time country
old-timer
old-timers
old-timey
old-timy
old-womanish
old-world (current term)
old age
old age pension
old as the hills
old bag
old ball
old bean
old boy
old boy network
old boys' club
old chap
old chestnut
old codger

Literary usage of Old-world

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"PART I IN THE OLD WORLD CHAPTER I THE MAN PROM AMERICA IT was the sort of window which was common in Paris about the end of the seventeenth century. ..."

2. Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement by Ray Stannard Baker (1922)
"He had come with American ideas and American principles, and he was face to face at last with the Old World, the problems of the Old World, the politicians ..."

3. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1905)
"CHAPTER IX THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW THE attention of the world became suddenly ... Spain was exercising a system of Old-World absolute and tyrannical ..."

4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"The influence of the New World upon the material conditions of life in the Old World has been very varied. For most inhabitants of Europe, and even for the ..."

5. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1905)
"CHAPTER IX THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW THE attention of the world became suddenly ... Spain was exercising a system of Old-World absolute and tyrannical ..."

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