1. new(a = adj.all) - 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"
Antonym: old
Derived form noun newness1
2. new(s = adj.all) fresh, novel - original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
3. new(s = adj.all) raw - lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"
4. new(s = adj.all) unexampled - having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity"
5. new(s = adj.all) - 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"
6. new(a = adj.all) - unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new"
Antonym: worn
7. new(s = adj.all) newfangled - (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them"
8. new(s = adj.all) - in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
9. new(s = adj.all) modern - used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
10. new(s = adj.all) young - (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"
11. new(s = adj.all) - unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"
new(r = adv.all) fresh, freshly, newly - 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"
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
2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes. [1913 Webster]
3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from what has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
"Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life." [1913 Webster]
"Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new." [1913 Webster]
5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously known or famous. Addison. [1913 Webster]
6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. [1913 Webster]
"New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace." [1913 Webster]
7. Fresh from anything; newly come. [1913 Webster]
"New from her sickness to that northern air." [1913 Webster]
Newly; recently. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
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To make new; to renew. [1913 Webster]
new, adj. & adv.
--adj.
1 a of recent origin or arrival. b made, invented, discovered, acquired, or experienced recently or now for the first time (a new star; has many new ideas).
2 in original condition; not worn or used.
3 a renewed or reformed (a new life; the new order). b reinvigorated (felt like a new person).
4 different from a recent previous one (has a new job).
5 in addition to others already existing (have you been to the new supermarket?).
6 (often foll. by to) unfamiliar or strange (a new sensation; the idea was new to me).
7 (often foll. by at) (of a person) inexperienced, unaccustomed (to doing something) (am new at this business).
8 (usu. prec. by the) often derog. a later, modern. b newfangled. c given to new or modern ideas (the new man). d recently affected by social change (the new rich).
9 (often prec. by the) advanced in method or theory (the new formula).
10 (in place-names) discovered or founded later than and named after (New York; New Zealand).
--adv. (usu. in comb.)
1 newly, recently (new-found; new-baked).
2 anew, afresh.
Idiom:
new birth Theol. spiritual regeneration. new broom see BROOM. new deal new arrangements or conditions, esp. when better than the earlier ones. new-laid (of an egg) freshly laid. new look a new or revised appearance or presentation, esp. of something familiar. the new mathematics (or maths) a system of teaching mathematics to children, with emphasis on investigation by them and on set theory. new moon
1 the moon when first seen as a crescent after conjunction with the sun.
2 the time of its appearance. a new one (often foll. by on) colloq. an account or idea not previously encountered (by a person). new potatoes the earliest potatoes of a new crop. new star a nova. new style dating reckoned by the Gregorian Calendar. New Testament the part of the Bible concerned with the life and teachings of Christ and his earliest followers. new town Brit. a town established as a completely new settlement with government sponsorship.
new wave
1 = NOUVELLE VAGUE.
2 a style of rock music popular in the 1970s. New World North and South America regarded collectively in relation to Europe.
new year
1 the calendar year just begun or about to begin.
2 the first few days of a year.
New Year's Day
1 January. New Year's Eve 31 December.
Derivative:
newish adj. newness n.
Etymology:
OE niwe f. Gmc
N desuetude, disusage, obsolescence, disuse, want of habit, want of practice, inusitation, newness to, new brooms, infraction of usage, nonprevalence, a custom more honored in the breach than the obser, unaccustomed, unused, unwonted, unseasoned, uninured, unhabituated, untrained, new, green, unhackneyed, unusual, nonobservant, disused.
N dissimilarity, dissimilaritude, unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance, divergence, variation, difference, novelty, originality, creativeness, oogamy, dissimilar, unlike, disparate, divergent, of a different kind, unmatched, unique, new, novel, unprecedented, original, nothing of the kind, no such thing, quite another thing, far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, very like a whale, as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth, lucus a non lucendo, diversified, otherwise, diis aliter visum, no more like my father than I to Hercules.
N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.
N greenness, green, blue and yellow, vert, emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine, absinthe, cr=eme de menthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine, copperas, greenness, verdure, viridity, viridescence, verditure, glaucoma, rokunaisho, green, verdant, glaucous, olive, olive green, green as grass, verdurous, emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green, coke bottle green, greenish, virent, virescent, green (learner), new, inexperienced, novice, (unskillful), green (ill, sick), green with envy, the green grass of Ireland, the wearing of the green.
bright as a new penny, capital of new hampshire, capital of new jersey, capital of new mexico, capital of new york, capital of new zealand, capital of papua new guinea, greater new orleans bridge, greater new york, independent state of papua new guinea, jewish new year, new amsterdam, new ballgame, new birth, new britain, new brunswick, new caledonia, new caledonian, new caledonian pine, new caledonian yew, new criticism, new deal, new dealer, new delhi, new edition, new england, new england aster, new england boiled dinner, new england clam chowder, new englander, new english bible, new flower, new forest, new greek, new guinea, new hampshire, new hampshirite, new haven, new hebrides, new ireland, new jazz, new jersey, new jerseyan, new jerseyite, new latin, new left, new line, new london, new look, new mexican, new mexico, new moon, new netherland, new norwegian, new orleans, new penny, new people's army, new phase of the moon, new river, new river gorge bridge, new scotland yard, new siberian islands, new south wales, new stone age, new style calendar, new testament, new thought, new to, new town, new wave, new waver, new world, new world anteater, new world beaver, new world blackbird, new world chat, new world coral snake, new world flycatcher, new world goldfinch, new world jay, new world least weasel, new world leishmaniasis, new world monkey, new world mouse, new world opah, new world oriole, new world porcupine, new world sparrow, new world tapir, new world vulture, new world warbler, new year, new year's, new year's day, new year's eve, new york, new york aster, new york bay, new york city, new york fern, new york minute, new york state, new york state barge canal, new york stock exchange, new york strip, new yorker, new zealand, new zealand beech, new zealand cotton, new zealand dacryberry, new zealand daisybush, new zealand dollar, new zealand honeysuckle, new zealand islands, new zealand mountain pine, new zealand spinach, new zealand white pine, new zealand wine berry, new zealand wren, new zealander, papua new guinea, turn over a new leaf
1. years(n = noun.time) age, eld, geezerhood, old age - a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"
is a kind of time of life
has parts: mid-sixties, sixties, mid-seventies, seventies, eighties, mid-eighties, mid-nineties, nineties
has particulars: dotage, second childhood, senility
2. years(n = noun.time) age, long time - a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
is a kind of period, period of time, time period
has particulars: month of sundays, aeon, eon, blue moon, year dot
3. years(n = noun.time) days - the time during which someone's life continues; "the monarch's last days"; "in his final years"
is a kind of life
N age, oldness, old age, advanced age, golden years, senility, senescence, years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, second childishness, dotage, vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf, threescore years and ten, green old age, ripe age, longevity, time of life, seniority, eldership, elders, firstling, doyen, father, primogeniture, geriatrics, nostology, aged, old, elderly, geriatric, senile, matronly, anile, in years, ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, gray, gray-headed, hoar, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated, advanced in life, advanced in years, stricken in years, wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot, having one foot in the grave, doting, like the last of pea time, older, elder, eldest, senior, firstborn, turned of, years old, of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah, ancestral, patriarchal, gerontic, give me a staff of honor for my age, bis pueri senes, peu de gens savent elre vieux, plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus, old age is creeping on apace, slow-consuming age, the hoary head is a crown of glory, the silver livery of advised age, to grow old gracefully, to vanish in the chinks that Time has made.