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NEW WORLD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hemisphere that includes North America and South America
Synonyms:
New World; occident; western hemisphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("New World" is a kind of...):
hemisphere (half of the terrestrial globe)
Meronyms (parts of "New World"):
North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Context examples:
Those foolish, yet well meant words, had opened a new world to Meg, and much disturbed the peace of the old one in which till now she had lived as happily as a child.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Hypnopedia, or the ability to learn during sleep, was popularized in the '60s, with for example the dystopia Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, in which individuals are conditioned to their future tasks during sleep. This concept has been progressively abandoned due to a lack of reliable scientific evidence supporting in-sleep learning abilities.
(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The cabin epitomized the new world in which they must thenceforth live and move. The old cabin was gone forever.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
New World leishmaniasis, also called American leishmaniasis, occurs in South and Central America and is caused by species of the L. mexicana or L. braziliensis complexes.
(Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
When he looked back now from his vantage-ground, the old world he had known, the world of land and sea and ships, of sailor-men and harpy-women, seemed a very small world; and yet it blended in with this new world and expanded.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
