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New

adjective

(compar. newer; superl. newest)

1.

Not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered. "New cars" , "A new comet" , "A new friend" , "A new year" , "The New World" Antonym: old.

2.

Original and of a kind not seen before. Synonyms: fresh, novel.

3.

Lacking training or experience. Synonym: raw. "Raw recruits"

4.

Having no previous example or precedent or parallel. Synonym: unexampled.

5.

Other than the former one(s); different. "My new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it" , "Ready to take a new direction"

6.

Unaffected by use or exposure. Antonym: worn.

7.

(of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new. Synonym: newfangled. "She buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them"

8.

In use after medieval times.

9.

Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development. Synonym: Modern. "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"

10.

(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity. Synonym: young. "Young corn"

11.

Unfamiliar. "Experiences new to him" , "Errors of someone new to the job"

adverb

1.

Very recently. Synonyms: fresh, freshly, newly. "Newly raised objections" , "A newly arranged hairdo" , "Grass new washed by the rain" , "A freshly cleaned floor" , "We are fresh out of tomatoes"

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"New" Quotes from Famous Books

... other than Peveril's Oxford classmate—"Dig" Owen—who, having obtained a position in the Eastern office of the White Pine Mining Company, had been advised to visit the mine and learn something of its practical working before assuming his new duties. He had just arrived when the rumor of an accident caused him to hurry to the shaft-mouth. There he was thunderstruck at recognizing in one of the two men brought up from the depths his recent college-mate and rival. In the excitement of the ...

— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe

... white-arm'd, And smiling still, from his unwonted hand[38] 735 Received the goblet. He from right to left Rich nectar from the beaker drawn, alert Distributed to all the powers divine. Heaven rang with laughter inextinguishable Peal after peal, such pleasure all conceived 740 At sight of Vulcan in his new employ. So spent they in festivity the day, And all were cheered; nor was Apollo's harp Silent, nor did the Muses spare to add Responsive melody of vocal sweets. 745 But when the sun's bright orb had now declined, ...

— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer

... Japanese cousins almost every day. Her conversation lessons were progressing rapidly; for the first stages of the language are easy. The new life appealed to Asako's love of novelty, and the strangeness of it to her child's love of make-believe. The summoning of her parents' spirits awakened in her the desire for a home, which lurks in every one of us; the love of old family things around us, the sense of an inheritance ...

— Kimono • John Paris

... though?' said Mr. Barkis. He made up his mouth as if to whistle, but he didn't whistle. He sat looking at the horse's ears, as if he saw something new there; and sat so, for a considerable time. ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... it has all the originality of an innovation. If Browning can scarcely be said to have created this species of blank verse, half familiar, vivid with natural life, full of vigour and beauty, rising and falling, with the unerring motion of the sea, he has certainly adapted, perfected, and made it a new thing in his hands. ...

— An Introduction to the Study of Browning • Arthur Symons

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