NEW as ADJECTIVE

  1. Meaning
    • (often followed by `to”) unfamiliar
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    • new experiences
    • experiences new to him
    • errors of someone new to the job
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  2. Meaning
    • having no previous example or precedent or parallel
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    • a time of unexampled prosperity
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  3. Meaning
    • (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development
    • before complete maturity
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    • new potatoes
    • young corn
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  4. Meaning
    • used of a living language
    • being the current stage in its development
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    • Modern English
    • New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew
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  5. Meaning
    • in use after Medieval times
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    • New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties
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  6. Meaning
    • lacking training or experience
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    • the new men were eager to fight
    • raw recruits
    • he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel
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  7. Meaning
    • not of long duration
    • having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
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    • a new law
    • new cars
    • a new comet
    • a new friend
    • a new year
    • the New World
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  8. Meaning
    • of a kind not seen before
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    • the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
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  9. Meaning
    • of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion
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  10. Meaning
    • unaffected by use or exposure
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    • it looks like new
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NEW as ADVERB

  1. Meaning
    • very recently
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    • they are newly married
    • newly raised objections
    • a newly arranged hairdo
    • grass new washed by the rain
    • a freshly cleaned floor
    • we are fresh out of tomatoes