"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, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of 'ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future': 68 32
  2. A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.
    Sense id: en-brave_new_world-en-noun-UE3JTKmq

Inflected forms

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