New Age

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adjective

of or relating to a movement espousing a broad range of philosophies and practices traditionally viewed as occult, metaphysical, or paranormal.

of or relating to an unintrusive style of music using both acoustic and electronic instruments and drawing on classical music, jazz, and rock.

noun

the New Age movement.

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Origin of New Age

First recorded in 1970–75

OTHER WORDS FROM New Age

New Ager, noun

Words nearby New Age

Nevins, Nevis, Nevski, nevus, new, New Age, New Age music, New Albany, New American Bible, New Amsterdam, Newar

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How to use New Age in a sentence

A great benefit of the ubiquity of the Internet in the developed world has been the facilitation of a new age of entrepreneurship.
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It is cutting-edge products like these that are helping define this new age of wireless entertainment.
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And that original score that kicks in as a new-age Millennium Falcon swoops into view is sure to get you going.
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Marjorie Wilkes Huntley was a New Age feminist, a widow, and a librarian.
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Young said he views this historic summit meeting in Washington as “the beginning of a new age of globalization.”
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Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
A new age would come under scrutiny and more notes would be taken.
The Man from Time|Frank Belknap Long
The nineteenth century not only shows a new age, but probably begins a new section of universal history.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4)|Richard Muther
He is, as Weigandt has called him, the first man of the bourgeois century, the first pioneer of the new age.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4)|Richard Muther
With Boucher the idea of honour, of innocence, has become something strange; the new age requires virtue, bonnes mœurs.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4)|Richard Muther

British Dictionary definitions for New Age

New Age

noun

a philosophy, originating in the late 1980s, characterized by a belief in alternative medicine, astrology, spiritualism, etc
(as modifier)New Age therapies

short for New Age music

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Cultural definitions for New Age

New Age

A general term covering a wide variety of alternative spiritual and philosophical movements and beliefs. Arising mainly during the 1980s, New Age teachings range from the efficacy of crystals, to a belief in reincarnation, to the advocacy of holistic and other approaches to personal health and global ecology.

notes for New Age

New Age music incorporates relaxing, dreamy melodic lines with a quietly harmonic background, primarily in order to promote meditation.