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new wave
noun
- a movement, trend, or vogue, as in art, literature, or politics, that breaks with traditional concepts, values, techniques, or the like.
- (often initial capital letters) a group of leaders or representatives of such a movement, especially of French film directors of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compare nouvelle vague.
- (often initial capital letters) a largely minimalist but emotionally intense style of rock music, being an outgrowth of punk rock in the late 1970s, typified by spare or repetitive arrangements, and emphasizing energetic, unpolished performance.
New Wave
1noun
- rock music of the late 1970s, related to punk but more complex: sometimes used to include punk
new wave
2noun
- a movement in art, film-making, politics, etc, that consciously breaks with traditional ideas
New Wave
3noun
- the New Wavea movement in the French cinema of the 1960s, led by such directors as Godard, Truffaut, and Resnais, characterized by a fluid use of the camera and an abandonment of traditional editing techniques Also known asLa Nouvelle Vague
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Other Words From
- new-wave adjective
- newwaver noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of new wave1
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Example Sentences
As the hairstylist Sam McKnight is quoted in the book saying, “It was a new wave, and it changed fashion forever.”
Now comes a new wave of young immigrants sent north to escape rampant gang violence in Central America.
Instead, his speech was followed by a new wave of white-on-black violence.
The response of the white South to the 1963 March on Washington was a new wave of racial violence.
Celebrity Rehab better get ready for a whole new wave of D-listers fighting off addictions to little round blue things.
I think about the beak of the ship, which buries itself in each new wave.
Every glance around the room, which revealed the vacant place of our friends, would bring our sorrow in a new wave upon us again.
Nearly a month was spent in the wood, the time being devoted to training in the new wave formation for the coming offensive.
The settlement of Virginia by the English was followed by remonstrance and a new wave of missionary activity.
Close at their back now lay the German invaders of Britain—a new wave of the human tide always flowing westward.
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