Definition of "old world" []

• The regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Staring across the neglected hotel gardens towards Carne Abbey, he was able, to glimpse behind the lead roof of the Abbey the familiar battlements of the school: keeping the new world out and the old world secure."
• "There was something old world about the man that suited this half-overgrown old house."
• "Gibbon he called the splendid bridge from the old world to the new."