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brave new world en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:
   • 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

Translations (6)

fr meilleur des mondes (ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future) · ru ди́вный но́вый ми́р (ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future) · da fagre nye verden (ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future) · hu szép új világ (ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future) · pt admirável mundo novo (ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future) · el θαυμαστός καινούργιος κόσμος (ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future)

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