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5 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
New \New\ (n[=u]), adjective [Compar. {Newer} (n[=u]"[~e]r); superl. {Newest}.] [OE. OE. newe, AS. niwe, neowe; akin to D. nieuw, OS. niwi, OHG. niuwi, G. neu, Icel. n[=y]r, Dan. & Sw. ny, Goth. niujis, Lith. naujas, Russ. novuii, Ir. nua, nuadh, Gael. nuadh, W. newydd, Armor. nevez, L. novus, Gr. ne'os, Skr. nava, and prob. to E. now. [root]263. See {Now}, and cf. {Announce}, {Innovate}, {Neophyte}, {Novel}.]
1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to {old}, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. ''Your new wife.'' --Chaucer.
2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes.
3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from what has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.
4. As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man.
Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new. --Bacon.
5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously known or famous. --Addison.
6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. --Pope.
7. Fresh from anything; newly come.
New from her sickness to that northern air. --Dryden.
{New birth}. See under {Birth}.
{New Church}, or {New Jerusalem Church}, the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See {Swedenborgian}.
{New heart} (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives.
{New land}, land cleared and cultivated for the first time.
{New light}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Crappie}.
{New moon}. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. --2 Kings iv. 23.
{New Red Sandstone} (Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See {Sandstone}.
{New style}. See {Style}.
{New testament}. See under {Testament}.
{New world}, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times.
Syn: Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See {Novel}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
New \New\ (n[=u]), adverb Newly; recently. --Chaucer.
Note: New is much used in composition, adverbially, in the sense of newly, recently, to qualify other words, as in new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown.
{Of new}, anew. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
New \New\, verb (used with an object) & i. To make new; to renew. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
new
adjective
1: not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" [ant: {old}]
2: other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction" [syn: {new(a)}]
3: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity" [syn: {unexampled}]
4: of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" [syn: {fresh}, {novel}]
5: lacking training or experience; "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" [syn: {raw}, {wet behind the ears(p)}]
6: of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion [syn: {newfangled}]
7: (often followed by 'to') unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job" [syn: {new to(p)}]
8: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn: {young}]
9: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new"
10: in use after Medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
11: used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" [syn: {Modern}]
adverb: very recently; "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" [syn: {recently}, {newly}, {freshly}, {fresh}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
151 Moby Thesaurus words for "new": ab ovo, accessory, actual, added, additional, afresh, again, all the rage, all the thing, ancillary, anew, another, another time, as is, as new, authentic, auxiliary, avant-garde, being, bis, callow, collateral, contemporaneous, contemporary, contributory, creative, current, de novo, dewy, else, encore, ever-new, evergreen, existent, existing, extant, extra, farther, fashionable, first-hand, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, freshly, from scratch, further, green, held back, held in reserve, held out, hip, imaginative, immanent, immature, immediate, in abeyance, in fashion, in hand, in style, in vogue, independent, instant, intact, lately, latest, maiden, maidenly, mint, mod, modern, modernistic, more, neoteric, nestling, new-fashioned, newfangled, newfashioned, newly, novel, of late, once again, once more, original, other, over again, plus, popular, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevalent, primary, pristine, put aside, put by, raw, recent, recently, regenerated, reinvigorated, renewed, reserve, revived, revolutionary, running, saved, sempervirent, smart, spare, stored, strange, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, suspended, that be, that is, to spare, topical, trendy, ulterior, unaccustomed, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, underived, undeveloped, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unfledged, unhandled, unique, unspent, untapped, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unutilized, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, vernal, virgin, virginal, waived, yet again, young
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