New World
Americannoun
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the Americas and Oceania, especially when regarded collectively as the inhabited landmasses of the world that became known to Europe after its discovery of the Americas.
noun
Etymology
Origin of New World
First recorded in 1545–50
Example Sentences
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Or else, a stand-in for the wave of Eastern European Jews fleeing persecution, braving the vast expanse of the Atlantic, aiming for New-World adoption.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2018
But it must not be understood by this that the piranhas—or, for the matter of that, the New-World caymans and crocodiles—ever become such dreaded foes of man as for instance the man-eating crocodiles of Africa.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
This pleasing list of attractions was wont to make an occasional trip—should I not rather say saunter?—to the New-World Levant, the Yankee Eöthen.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
It is this fresh, New-World spirit that entitles him to be called original: he is non-European.
From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane
Silk culture has never yet become a New-World industry.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
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