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brave new worlds

brave new worlds is the plural of brave new world.

Meaning of brave new 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...
  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

Questions about brave new worlds

What is brave new worlds the plural of?
Brave new worlds is the plural of brave new world.

Words near brave new worlds in the dictionary

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

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