Columbus sailed farther west to look for a new continent.
新大陆
the New World
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Meaning and common use
the New World
the Americas as opposed to the Old World 旧大陆 or Eurasia
How 新大陆 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 新大陆 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Columbus's Law of Discovery states: If you discovered something BEFORE Christopher Columbus, then what you discovered does not exist.
No published English translation for this sentence.
Words that keep company with 新大陆.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 新大陆.
Directly before
- 发现新大陆2
- 一个新大陆1
Directly after
- 新大陆法则1
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
About 新大陆
What does 新大陆 mean in Chinese?
新大陆 (xīndàlù) means the New World.
How do you pronounce 新大陆?
新大陆 is pronounced xīndàlù.
Is 新大陆 an HSK word?
新大陆 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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