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Old World

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Definitions

  1. The Eastern Hemisphere, especially Europe, Africa and Asia.

  2. The known world before the discovery of the Americas.

    • 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!
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA