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brave new world

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English

Syllables
brave new -world
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A better, often utopian (future) world.

noun

A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From the title of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, itself a reference to a line from The Tempest (1610), see quotations.

Inflected Forms

brave new worlds (plural)

Questions

What does brave new world mean?
A better, often utopian (future) world.
Where does brave new world come from?
From the title of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, itself a reference to a line from The Tempest (1610), see quotations.

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