New-world meaning

Designating or of a group of animals or plants native to the Western Hemisphere, esp. the Americas.
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The continents North America and South America combined.
pronoun
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The Western Hemisphere. The term was first used by the Italian historian Peter Martyr (1457–1526), whose De Rebus Oceanicis et Novo Orbe (1516) chronicled the discovery of America.
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The Western Hemisphere.
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New-world Sentence Examples

  • The new world seemed less scary in daylight.

  • Bianca's new world was tiny and white, the porcelain toilet the only chair and the tub the only place long enough for her to lie down.

  • He'd gone away for a few months and returned to an entirely new world.

  • Yully left the gym, feeling as if she'd entered a new world.

  • She stood before the window, feeling very much like a prisoner in her new world.

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