what does new mean?
NEW as ADJECTIVE
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- (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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- having no previous example or precedent or parallel
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- a time of unexampled prosperity
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- (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development
- before complete maturity
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- 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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- in use after Medieval times
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- New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion
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- unaffected by use or exposure
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NEW as ADVERB
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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
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