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Definition of 'brave new world'

brave new world

singular noun

If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.

...the brave new world of internet banking. [+ of]

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brave new world in British

(breɪv njuː wɜːld)

noun

used, sometimes ironically, to refer to a new and optimistic situation resulting from major societal or technological changes

the brave new world of fully interactive television

Little more than 12 months ago such high-science concepts were regarded as the frontiers of a brave new world.

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brave new world in American

a place or situation regarded as like that of a hypothetical future society in being variously dehumanized, disorienting, technologically revolutionary, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Word origin of 'brave new world'

after Brave New World, title of dystopian novel (1932) by A. Huxley , an allusion to a line in The Tempest (V, i) by Shakespeare

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