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New World   /nu wərld/   Listen
adjective
New  adj.  (compar. newer; superl. newest)  
1.
Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. "Your new wife."
2.
Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes.
3.
Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from what has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.
4.
As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man. "Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life." "Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new."
5.
Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously known or famous.
6.
Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. "New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace."
7.
Fresh from anything; newly come. "New from her sickness to that northern air."
New birth. See under Birth.
New Church, or New Jerusalem Church, the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See Swedenborgian.
New heart (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives.
New land, land cleared and cultivated for the first time.
New light. (Zool.) See Crappie.
New moon.
(a)
The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible.
(b)
The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews.
New Red Sandstone (Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone.
New style. See Style.
New testament. See under Testament.
New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times.
Synonyms: Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel.






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"New world" Quotes from Famous Books



... In the new world of our progressionist teachers, it is electricity that is the real motive-power. The men and women are only marionettes—worked ...
— Dreams - From a volume entitled "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" • Jerome K. Jerome

... quitted, found Sir Charles in desperate case, but as coolly composed as ever, and with the air of the Court still about him despite his bared head and torn and bloodstained clothing, treating those who came against him to an exhibition of swordsmanship such as the New World had probably rarely witnessed. Landless, striking down a cutpurse from Tyburn, saw him run the Turk through, and saw behind him the nightmare visage and the raised club of Roach. He uttered a warning cry, but the club descended, and ...
— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston

... they walked together in a new world. No revealing word was spoken; no vows were given, none asked for; but a new bond held them. She grew older, quieter, taller, he humbler, more tender and reverent, as they ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois

... as to suit the requirements. Elze further urges the name of a town on the opposite African coast, Calibia, as suggesting Caliban's name. For an argument that the island is vaguely placed in the Mediterranean to suit the Old World plot and yet by many details made suggestive of the New World, see Introduction to 'The ...
— Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies • Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke

... must have been long ago dismissed. Acquainted as you are with some part of my destiny; of my being left on the desert shore of Japan; on the borders of a new world,—a world civilized indeed, and peopled by men, but existing in almost total separation from the other families of mankind; with language, manners, and policy almost incompatible with the existence of a stranger among them; all entrance ...
— Jane Talbot • Charles Brockden Brown


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