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Old World

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1. Old World - Noun

2. Old World - Adjective

3. Old World - Adjective Satellite

4. Old World - Proper noun

Meaning

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

characteristic of former times especially in Europe

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old-world

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We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way. Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward. Flora Thompson

[Fascism] was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly. Oswald Mosley

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. Billy Sunday

The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New. Carlos Fuentes

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