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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"

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.

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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