new world

Unexplored territory ahead

A new world is any realm or domain that feels unfamiliar or unexplored—a fresh territory of experience or possibility.

Discovery of something can open a whole new world: The telescope revealed a new world of distant galaxies.

Science fiction imagines colonizing new worlds beyond Earth.

The phrase suggests wonder and potential. (Capitalized New World is the Americas.)

exploration

voyage

Journey by sea

Magellan · navigation · cartography · uncharted · discovery · landfall · astrolabe · compass · sea route · Atlantic crossing

opportunity

frontier

Edge of settlement

homestead · prosperity · American Dream · settlement · pioneer · manifest destiny · gold rush · land grants · escape · freedom

Americas

Columbus

Ohio's seat of government

  • AztecsPre-Columbian Mexican empire
  • IncasPre-Columbian Peruvian civilization
  • MayansPre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilization

conquistadors · Cortés · Pizarro · Jamestown · Plymouth · Pilgrims · Puritans · Roanoke · indigenous peoples · Native Americans

ecology

species

Finest taxonomic rank

Columbian Exchange · endemic · invasive species · habitat · rainforest · Amazon · prairie · ecosystem · wildlife · conservation

wine

vineyard

Grape-growing estate

Chile · Argentina · California · Oregon · terroir · Malbec · Chardonnay · winemaking · viticulture · harvest

Categories
Opposites
geographic/hemispheric origin

new worldOld World

Pre-discovery known lands

Europe · Eastern Hemisphere · known world · Eurasia · Africa

novelty/familiarity

new worldold world

Evoking earlier times

known world · home · established order · the old country · motherland

wine regions

new worldOld World

Pre-discovery known lands

Bordeaux · Burgundy

Family

new, world, renew, renewal, newly, renewed, newness, newer, renewing

Familiarity
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Known to kids · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G