"brave new world" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: brave new worlds [plural]
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. Head templates: {{en-noun}} brave new world (plural brave new worlds)
  1. A better, often utopian (future) world. Translations (ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future): fagre nye verden [common-gender] (Danish), meilleur des mondes (French), θαυμαστός καινούργιος κόσμος (thavmastós kainoúrgios kósmos) (Greek), szép új világ (Hungarian), admirável mundo novo [masculine] (Portuguese), ди́вный но́вый ми́р (dívnyj nóvyj mír) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-brave_new_world-en-noun-ZE-ganbD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 88 12 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 86 14 Disambiguation of 'ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future': 69 31
  2. A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.
    Sense id: en-brave_new_world-en-noun-UE3JTKmq

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