Meaning of brave new world | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A better, often utopian (future) world.
2. A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.

Equivalents

Examples

“O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.”

“Will digital broadcasting, 'mega-channel-land', change everything or nothing? Will it be a brave new world, or simply more of the same?”

“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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