"Old Continent" meaning in Anglais

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Compositions en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms propres en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Composé de old et de continent."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "pos_title": "Nom propre",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Old World"
    },
    {
      "word": "New World"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "anglais) Leïla Slimani, “Europe has turned its back on the Mediterranean – but there is still hope”, dans The Guardian, 2 mars 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/02/leila-slimani-divided-territory-mediterranean texte intégral",
          "text": "There’s a story that King Hassan II hired teams of Moroccan and Spanish engineers to make a presentation – at a meeting with Jacques Delors, who was president of the European Commission at the time – for his plan to build a bridge that would connect Africa to the Old Continent."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vieux Continent."
      ],
      "id": "fr-Old_Continent-en-name-RZ4dbfqY"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˌoʊld ˈkɑntɪnənt\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˌəʊld ˈkɒntɪnənt\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Royaume-Uni"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Old Continent"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Compositions en anglais",
    "Noms propres en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Composé de old et de continent."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "pos_title": "Nom propre",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Old World"
    },
    {
      "word": "New World"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "anglais) Leïla Slimani, “Europe has turned its back on the Mediterranean – but there is still hope”, dans The Guardian, 2 mars 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/02/leila-slimani-divided-territory-mediterranean texte intégral",
          "text": "There’s a story that King Hassan II hired teams of Moroccan and Spanish engineers to make a presentation – at a meeting with Jacques Delors, who was president of the European Commission at the time – for his plan to build a bridge that would connect Africa to the Old Continent."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vieux Continent."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˌoʊld ˈkɑntɪnənt\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˌəʊld ˈkɒntɪnənt\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Royaume-Uni"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Old Continent"
}