Usually means: 1980s eclectic, stylish pop music.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word new wave:

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  1. new wave: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. new-wave, new wave: Merriam-Webster
  3. new wave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. new wave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. new wave, the New Wave: Collins English Dictionary
  6. New Wave, new wave: Vocabulary.com
  7. New-Wave, new-wave: Wordnik
  8. new wave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. New Wave, new-wave, new wave: Wiktionary
  10. new wave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. new wave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. new-wave, new wave: Dictionary.com
  13. New Wave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. New Wave (Against Me! album), New Wave (Dizzy Gillespie album), New Wave (Malayalam film movement), New Wave (The Auteurs album), New Wave (competition), New Wave (design), New Wave (disambiguation), New Wave (music), New Wave (science fiction), New Wave, New wave (music), New wave, The New Wave (comics), The New Wave (instrumental), The New Wave (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. New wave: Rhymezone
  16. new wave, new wave, new wave (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. new wave: FreeDictionary.org
  18. new wave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. new wave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. New Wave (cinema), New Wave (disambiguation), New Wave: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (New wave)

noun:  Any of several movements in music and film which are or were considered cutting edge.
adjective:  Representing the latest and most advanced style.
noun:  (music) An alternative and broad pop and rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s, incorporating punk sensibilities and/or other forms of music, but made with more accessibility.

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