brave new world
English
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.
Noun
brave new world (plural brave new worlds)
- A better, often utopian (future) world.
- 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 606515358, [Act V, scene i], page 17:
- O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.
- 1999, Helen Kelly-Holmes, European Television Discourse in Transition, →ISBN, page 6:
- Will digital broadcasting, 'mega-channel-land', change everything or nothing? Will it be a brave new world, or simply more of the same?
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- A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.
- 2005, Will Watson, “The Ethics of Living American Primacy”, in Allan Eickelman et al., editor, Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism and Cultural Transformation, →ISBN, page 103:
- 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 ...
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Translations
ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future
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