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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



... on the Origin of Tragedy with the delight of one who discovers a new world, which he has seen already in a dream. I never take up Nietzsche without the surprise of finding something familiar. Sometimes it is the answer to a question which I have only asked; sometimes it seems to me that I ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons
... soon realised that, as with old furniture, porcelain, and silver, much of the finest embroideries of England, and a vast quantity of the ancient laces of Italy, France, and Belgium are being slowly but surely carried off to the New World. American dollars are doing much to rob not only the Old Country of the fairest flowers of her garden, but the Continent of their finest and best examples of the genius of the past. The Vanderbilts and the Astors, among ...
— Chats on Old Lace and Needlework • Emily Leigh Lowes
... "You find the new world amusing, Sire?" asked Lincoln, with smiling deference, and indicating the space and splendour of the gathering by one comprehensive gesture. "At any rate, you find ...
— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells
... in relation to the control of the Pacific was early recognized by the great European powers, some of whom had but small respect for the Bull of Pope Alexander VI dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal. England, France, and Russia sent repeated expeditions into the Pacific. In 1646 the British Admiralty sent two ships to look in Hudson's Bay for a northwest passage to the South Sea, one of which bore the significant name of ...
— The March of Portola - and, The Log of the San Carlos and Original Documents - Translated and Annotated • Zoeth S. Eldredge and E. J. Molera
... human Bodies, once tainted with this Malady; which may differently (in some Respects) act its Tragedy; the Change being occasion'd by the Difference of Climates and Bodies, as in Europe. We being well enough assur'd that the Pox had its first Rise (known to us) in this new World, it being caught of the Indian Women, by the Spanish Soldiers that follow'd Columbus in one of his Expeditions to America; who after their Arrival in Old Spain, were hasten'd to the Relief of Naples, at that Time besieg'd by the French. Provisions growing scarce, the useless People were turn'd out ...
— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson


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