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old-world, a.|ˈəʊldwɜːld|
[The phrase old world used attrib.: see world.]
1. Of or pertaining to the old world or ancient order of things; belonging to, or characteristic of, early or bygone times.
1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. iv, Silly auld warld Ceremonies. 1822Scott Nigel xiii. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) II. xi. 9 The great old-world cities of Seleucia and Babylon. 1858Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. I. xlvii. 185 The genus Statesman; which..seems on the way to join the Megatheria of old world history. 1876Ouida Winter City ix. 257 She watched the simple pastoral old-world life around her.
2. a. Of or pertaining to the Old World or continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa, as opposed to the New World or America.
1877Harper's Mag. Dec. 91/2 This was..a beautiful garden kept in old-world order by a Scotch gardener. 1931E. F. Benson Mapp & Lucia i. 19 Seven bedrooms, four sitting-rooms h. & c., and an old-world garden. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics X. 97 Consolidation with various Old-World stocks (Uralic, Indo-European) has been sought. 1967Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. 23 (Advt.), Old world wood finish and antique polished bronze [lamp]..antique empire gold and black candelabra. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Oct. 14/1 For most Americans political assassination was an Old World phenomenon of bomb-throwing Bolsheviks and Balkan fanatics.
b. Old World monkey, a catarrhine monkey belonging to the superfamily Cercopithecoidea or the family Cercopithecidæ, which includes the monkeys of Africa and Asia.
1863H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. v. 326 The Marmosets, have thirty-two teeth, like the Old World monkeys and man. 1894H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates I. 252 The family Cercopithecidæ includes all the Old World Monkeys except the Anthropoid or true Apes, and Man. 1936E. G. Boulenger Apes & Monkeys vi. 120 The old-world monkeys are very widely distributed. 1968Times 15 Nov. 8/6 Two fossil monkeys of the primate group known as the Old World monkeys, or Cercopithecoidea. Living representatives of the group include baboons, mandrills and macaques. 1974S. I. Rosen Introd. Primates vi. 86 The Old World monkeys are biologically closer to man than the New World primates.
Hence old-ˈworldish a., characteristic of the old world; old-ˈworldism, old-ˈworldliness, old-ˈworldness, old-world character or quality.
1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 417 His notions are old-worldish. 1887Stuart Cumberland Queen's Highway fr. Ocean to Ocean 8 Victoria is not a bustling place, neither is it sleepy; but there is an air of old-worldism, of quiet content about it. 1888M. W. Hungerford Hon. Mrs. Vereker I. i. 2 There was a touch of old-worldism, of a comfortable drowsiness, about everything. 1895Atlantic Monthly Mar. 410 There is a sort of modern oldworldness. 1934Archit. Rev. LXXV. 178 The patron public was becoming patina-conscious, aware of texture, age-effects, old-worldliness, the charm of mellowness. |