Usually means: Europe, Asia, Africa; pre-Columbian era.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Old World:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. old world: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Old World, old-world, the Old World: Merriam-Webster
  3. Old World, Old World, old-world, old world: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Old World, old-world: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Old World, old-world, old-world: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Old World, old-world: Vocabulary.com
  7. Old-World, Old World, Old-world, old-world: Wordnik
  8. old-world, the Old World, the Old world: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Old World, old-world: Wiktionary
  10. Old World, old-world: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Old World: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Old World, old-world: Dictionary.com
  13. Old World (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Old World (Warhammer), Old World (disambiguation), Old World, Old world, The Old World: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Old world, old-world: Rhymezone
  16. Old World: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. old-world, old world: FreeDictionary.org
  18. old-world, old world: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Old World, old-world: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old World, old-world: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old World, old-world: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Old World: Anthropological Terms

(Note: See old_worlds as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Old World)

noun:  The Eastern Hemisphere, especially Europe, Africa and Asia.
noun:  The known world before the discovery of the Americas.

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