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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Old or old-fashioned
age-old
ageing
ancient
antediluvian
anti-progressive
fossilization
fossilize
fossilized
frumpy
fustily
out of date
outdate
outdated
outdatedly
outmoded
unliberated
unmodernized
unmodish
unprogressive
unreconstructed

Old World | American Dictionary

Old World
noun[ U ]
us/ˈoʊld ˈwɜrld/
the part of the world consisting of Europe, Asia, and Africa that Europeans knew about before Christopher Columbus traveled to the Americas

Examples of the Old World

the Old World
The lines between software vendors, hardware suppliers and the old-world industrial conglomerates are fast blurring.
From TechCrunch
The most famous story about modern presidential campaigning now has a quaint old-world tone.
From The Atlantic
The accordion gives the whole thing a cheery old-world feel that sharpens yet another blunt attack.
From Billboard
This idea is somewhat of an old-world thought inherited from a time when families were so interdependent.
From TIME
Until now, old-world legal concepts could be stretched to cover post-industrial and post-communication-age scenarios.
From Slate Magazine
The problem was, these companies had little to no knowledge of online advertising and were importing their old-world culture into the platform.
From TechCrunch
Medicine is still a profession dominated by old-world apprenticeships, where a mentor's passion can be transmitted to a new generation.
From CNN
He survived both an old-world illness - the plague - and a new-world one - prostate cancer.
From NPR
The title track, in particular, is a stirring yet subtle revelation of old-world songwriting and then-new-world experimentation.
From NPR
The rooms in the original palace have high ceilings and rich, old-world charm.
From CNN
Known for their dashing, eye-catching outfits and old-world sophistication, dandies may seem like an easily recognizable and categorized bunch.
From Slate Magazine
The zero-emission ride will please those who care about the environment, and the paper and bamboo give it an air of old-world craftsmanship.
From CNET
The buckets we put it in are functional and family-friendly or ornamental and delicately wrought -- a bountiful sign of modern egalitarianism or a vestige of old-world presumption.
From The Atlantic
Old-world charm was a must.
From Los Angeles Times
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