Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A world or realm of radically transformed existence, especially one in which technological progress has both positive and negative results.
Wiktionary
- n. An ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future.
- n. A significant change for the worse.
Etymologies
- From the title of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, which is in turn a reference to a line from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (first performed around 1611). (Wiktionary)
- After Brave New World, title of a novel by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“New Bedford had been a town bereft of three-quarters of a generation of young men when those unlikely Pied Pipers, Roland Francis Clancey and Jeremy Bolt, had arrived, with the promise of a brave new world out beyond the frontier.”
“And as far as she could tell, the Allimir were the only ones in this brave new world who'd taken an oath of pacifism.”
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Criswell Predicts
Words describing a future that may or may not be entirely grounded in reality. Not to be used for predictive purposes. I do not have the gift of premonition. In fact, all these ideas come from popu...
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Books I Must Read
A list of titles I have never read, but have been meaning to.
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