old world

1. 1.

   the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas

   Broaderregion

   Part ofeastern hemisphere

Questions about old world

What does old world mean?

old world means "the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas".

Is old world a common word?

old world is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.