New World, the—North and South America:
- The bird which we call turkey was one of our best acclimatizations after the discovery of the New World.
new world—new setting of existence with its customs, traditions, etc.:
- She left her rich, safe, home and came to a new world in the city.
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase brave new world, the—a nightmarish utopian society, especially one in which technological progress has negative results:
- One only has to think of the brave new world as “prophetically” described by Aldous Huxley: societies made up of wilfully-created, genetically-determined master/slave creatures.