Synonyms for old worlds
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ohld-wurld |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈoʊldˈwɜrld |
Top 10 synonyms for old worlds
Définition of old worlds
Origin :- of or pertaining to Eurasia and Africa, as opposed to the Americas, 1877.
- As in native land : noun one's native country
- As in old country : noun native land
- By old earthquakes and changes which happened in old worlds, ages on ages since.
- Extract from : « Madam How and Lady Why » by Charles Kingsley
- Macrotherium, like the last genus, seems to have been common to both New and Old Worlds.
- Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
- Still, all these differences are unessential; in principle the academic libraries are alike in the New and Old Worlds.
- Extract from : « The Library and Society » by Various
- In reality, here is the oldest of old worlds, in which pigmy man is not even of yesterday, but only of to-day.
- Extract from : « A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs » by George M. Wrong
- The notion is from Cuvier (that of the old worlds), as I have explained in an additional note to the preface.
- Extract from : « Life of Lord Byron, With His Letters And Journals, Vol. 5 (of 6) » by (Lord Byron) George Gordon Byron
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