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brave new world

brave new world noun: a better, often utopian (future) world.

Noun

brave new world (plural brave new worlds)

  1. A better, often utopian (future) world.
    • O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    • Will digital broadcasting, 'mega-channel-land', change everything or nothing? Will it be a brave new world, or simply more of the same?1999, Helen Kelly-Holmes, European Television Discourse in Transition, →ISBN, page 6
  2. A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.
    • In this brave new world, the IMF and other Western financial institutions dictated radical free trade "shock treatment" to both developing nations and the former USSR ...2005, Will Watson, “The Ethics of Living American Primacy”, in Allan Eickelman et al., editors, Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism and Cultural Transformation, →ISBN, page 103

Forms of brave new world

pluralbrave new worlds

Origin of brave new world

From the title of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, itself a reference to a line from The Tempest (1610), see quotations.

Questions about brave new world

What does brave new world mean?
Brave new world means a better, often utopian (future) world.
What part of speech is brave new world?
Brave new world is a noun.
What is the plural of brave new world?
The plural of brave new world is brave new worlds.

Words near brave new world in the dictionary

  1. Bravais lattices
  2. Bravanese
  3. bravas
  4. brave
  5. brave as a lion
  6. brave new world
  7. brave new worlds
  8. brave out
  9. braved
  10. braved out
  11. braveheart

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