'old-world' definitions:
Definition of 'old-world'
From: WordNet
adjective
Characteristic of former times especially in Europe; "an old-world cottage"
Definition of 'old-world'
From: GCIDE
- nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
- 1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time. Opposite of modern. [Narrower terms: antebellum; {fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal), stodgy old-fashioned}; medieval, mediaeval, gothic; old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian; old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world] Also See: old, past. [WordNet 1.5]