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New World, new world
[world n. 11.]
Used attrib. to designate phenomena characteristic of, or territories pertaining to, the western hemisphere. Hence New-Worlder, New-Worldling, a native or inhabitant of the western hemisphere; newworldward adv., towards the western hemisphere.
[1823Byron Juan ix. xxxix. 24 How the new worldlings of the then new east.] a1855C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xviii. 7 Some natural and graphic touches disclosed to the reader the scene of virgin forest and great, New-World river—barren of sail and flag. 1863H. W. Bates Naturalist on Amazons II. v. 324 All the New World genera of apes..are represented in the Amazon regions. 1867O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel 216 There is a double proportion of oxygen in the New-World air. 1876H. Melville Clarel I. ii. xxvi. 256 Oh, that a New-Worlder should talk so! 1901Munsey's Mag. XXIV. 530/1 These and other causes have acted and reacted to bring about, in this new world metropolis,..a crowding together of the poor. 1930Tablet 24 May 686/1 Old Worldlings in Europe..the New-Worldlings of the U.S.A. 1935E. E. Cummings Let. 29 Jan. (1969) 134 Delighted to learn that you're casting your anchor and blowing newworldward!!!!! 1944Amer. Fern Jrnl. XXXIV. 69 (heading) The New World species of Azolla. 1951in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 77/2 A new-world man towering free and confident in an untroubled generation. 1957P. J. Darlington Zoogeography vi. 346 Whether one of them [sc. a primitive primate] reached South America and evolved the New World monkeys..is unknown. Ibid. 390 Erethizontidae, New World porcupines. 1965New Statesman 24 Sept. 435/1 Great Victorian relics, long since peeled of their paint, electric-light bulbs and courteous service—especially toward dollar-bearing New Worlders. These are some recent experiences of myself and a pair of Montreal acquaintances. 1968Times 15 Nov. 8/7 The New World monkeys, or Ceboidea, include such species as the marmosets and the howler monkeys. 1970Nature 24 Oct. 382/1 In Jamaica the fifth instar larvae of the New World hawkmoth, Erinnyis ello, exhibit four basic colours. |