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单词 New World
释义

New World

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noun

new-world

2 of 2

adjective

ˈnü-ˈwər(-ə)ld How to pronounce new-world (audio)
ˈnyü-
: of, relating to, or characteristic of the New World
Snatches and scraps of old-world philosophies and new-world ethics floated through his mind … Jack London
New-world visitors accustomed to sedate, 55-mile-an-hour speed limits, lane discipline, and courtly driving may be genuinely astonished at old-world ways, especially when they're struggling with a stick shift on a hot summer day with no air-conditioning in the car. Tony Rocca
We new-world settlers … brought the imagination of other countries to transplant it in a different geography. Guy Davenport
Even notes of honey can emerge with bottle age, and new-world examples of the wine made from ripe-picked grapes have exhibited aromas of fig and black raspberry jam. John Winthrop Haeger
Phrases
the New World
: the western hemisphere
especially : the continental landmass of North and South America
It must therefore be inferred that the colonizers of the New World … numbered at least 900 individuals … Johanna Nichols
Some 30,000 Kuna Indians live in villages on the tiny coral islands just off Panama's Caribbean Coast … When Columbus landed in the New World, these Indians occupied a much larger slice of Central America. Norman Myers

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1549, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

circa 1855, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

New World

noun

: the lands in the western hemisphere and especially North and South America
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