old world
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.51 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Eastern Hemisphere, especially Europe, Africa and Asia.
Example Sentences
- "Over the mind of the tourist, visiting the Old World for the first time,—countries where have transpired thrilling events recorded in history, what an immensity of thought and feeling sweeps!"
- "When our Founding Fathers broke with the old world, America indeed was an experiment, and history has shown that such experiments were tried on few occasions but previously failed."
Inflected Forms
the Old World (canonical)