Definitions of new:
- adjective: not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
Example: "A new law"
- adjective: unaffected by use or exposure
Example: "It looks like new"
- adjective: (often followed by `to') unfamiliar
Example: "New experiences"
- adjective: having no previous example or precedent or parallel
- adjective: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
Example: "New potatoes"
- adjective: in use after Medieval times
Example: "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
- adjective: of a kind not seen before
- adjective: of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion
- adjective: used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
Example: "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
- adjective: lacking training or experience
Example: "The new men were eager to fight"
- adverb: very recently
Example: "They are newly married"
- name: A surname (rare: 1 in 25000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #3047)
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