New World

American  

noun

1. the Americas and Oceania, especially when regarded collectively as the inhabited landmasses of the world that became known to Europe after its discovery of the Americas.

2. Western Hemisphere.

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New World British  

noun

1. the Americas; the western hemisphere

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New World Cultural  

1. A name for the Americas, especially during the time of first exploration and colonization of the Americas by Europeans. (Compare Old World.)

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Etymology

Origin of New World

First recorded in 1545–50

Example Sentences

Or else, a stand-in for the wave of Eastern European Jews fleeing persecution, braving the vast expanse of the Atlantic, aiming for New-World adoption.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2018

And scarcely elsewhere does the sight jar so little on one's New-World sensibilities as in the midst of this mediaeval setting.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

Spaniards, antipathy of the French to, 47-48;      Spanish cruelty in the New-World, 98.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord

But let me explain to New-World readers what I mean by a Bath-road Berkshire boy.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

With New-World innocence of Old-World wickedness, I gave my Irish Moses a sixpence, upon which the crowd came upon me in a ring of blessing, until I pushed through it with some rough epithet.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various