NEW WORLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New World mean? 

• NEW WORLD (noun)
  The noun NEW WORLD has 1 sense:

1. the hemisphere that includes North America and South America

  Familiarity information: NEW WORLD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW WORLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hemisphere that includes North America and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

New World; occident; western hemisphere

Hypernyms ("New World" is a kind of...):

hemisphere (half of the terrestrial globe)

Meronyms (parts of "New World"):

North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

 Context examples 

The new world has the designation Ross 128 b and is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b.

(Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered, ESO)

The disease has been divided into Old and New World forms.

(Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The fifteen subfamilies are HESPEROMYINAE (New World mice and rats), Cricetinae, Spalacinae, Myospalacinae, Lophiomyinae, Platacanthomyinae, Nesomyinae, Otomyinae, Rhizomyinae, MICROTINAE (Arvicolinae), GERBILLINAE, Dendromurinae, Cricetomyinae, Murinae (Old World mice and rats), and Hydromyinae.

(Muridae, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

There are four major clinical types of this infection: cutaneous (Old and New World) (LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS), diffuse cutaneous (LEISHMANIASIS, DIFFUSE CUTANEOUS), mucocutaneous (LEISHMANIASIS, MUCOCUTANEOUS), and visceral (LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL).

(Leishmaniasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The new world, known as K2-288Bb, could be rocky or could be a gas-rich planet similar to Neptune.

(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)

Hans sighed as though awakening from sleep. The clang of the plate had aroused them to life in a new world.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Without any antecedent knowledge, without any warning whatever that such existed, he found himself an explorer in a totally new world.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Well, he decided, it was up to him to get acquainted in this new world.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This group is divided into Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae) and New World monkeys (Callitrichidae and Cebidae).

(Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the dæmon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)