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.
1. day(n = noun.time) 24-hour interval, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day"
is a kind of time unit, unit of time
has parts: day, daylight, daytime, high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon, dark, night, nighttime, 60 minutes, hour, hr
has particulars: tomorrow, today, yesterday, morrow, eve, date, day of the month, date
Derived form adjective daily1
2. day(n = noun.time) - some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual"
is a kind of time
has particulars: crack of doom, day of judgement, day of judgment, day of reckoning, doomsday, end of the world, eschaton, judgement day, judgment day, last day, last judgement, last judgment, off-day
3. day(n = noun.time) - a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance; "Mother's Day"
is a kind of calendar day, civil day
has particulars: admission day, arbor day, cinco de mayo, commencement day, degree day, november 5, inauguration day, january 20, bissextile day, february 29, leap day, v-day, victory day, rag day, red-letter day, payday, election day, polling day, field day, field day, ides, market day, walpurgis night, december 31, new year's eve, january 19, lee's birthday, robert e lee's birthday, robert e lee day, tet, holiday, february 2, groundhog day, february 12, lincoln's birthday, february 14, saint valentine's day, st valentine's day, valentine's day, valentine day, february 22, washington's birthday, march 2, texas independence day, march 17, saint patrick's day, st patrick's day, all fools' day, april fools', april fools' day, april 14, pan american day, patriot's day, first of may, may 1, may day, mother's day, armed forces day, davis' birthday, jefferson davis' birthday, june 3, flag day, june 14, father's day, citizenship day, september 17, american indian day, october 24, united nations day, allhallows eve, hallowe'en, halloween, saint's day, june 23, midsummer eve, midsummer night, st john's eve, st john's night, school day, speech day, washday, washing day, wedding day, anniversary, day of remembrance
4. day(n = noun.time) daylight, daytime - the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"
is a kind of period, period of time, time period
is a part of 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours
has parts: forenoon, morn, morning, morning time
has particulars: afternoon, midafternoon, eve, even, evening, eventide
Antonym: night
5. day(n = noun.time) - the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working); "my day began early this morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she called it a day and went to bed"
is a kind of work time
has particulars: workday, working day
6. day(n = noun.time) - an era of existence or influence; "in the day of the dinosaurs"; "in the days of the Roman Empire"; "in the days of sailing ships"; "he was a successful pianist in his day"
is a kind of epoch, era
7. day(n = noun.time) - the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day on Jupiter?"
is a kind of period, period of time, time period
has particulars: lunar day
8. day(n = noun.time) sidereal day - the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day;
is a kind of time unit, unit of time, sidereal time
9. day(n = noun.state) - a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day"
is a kind of chance, opportunity
10. day(n = noun.person) clarence day, clarence shepard day jr. - United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935);
is a kind of author, writer
day, n.
1 the time between sunrise and sunset.
2 a a period of 24 hours as a unit of time, esp. from midnight to midnight, corresponding to a complete revolution of the earth on its axis. b a corresponding period on other planets (Martian day).
3 daylight (clear as day).
4 the time in a day during which work is normally done (an eight-hour day).
5 a (also pl.) a period of the past or present (the modern day; the old days). b (prec. by the) the present time (the issues of the day).
6 the lifetime of a person or thing, esp. regarded as useful or productive (have had my day; in my day things were different).
7 a point of time (will do it one day).
8 a the date of a specific festival. b a day associated with a particular event or purpose (graduation day; payday; Christmas day).
9 a particular date; a date agreed on.
10 a day's endeavour, or the period of an endeavour, esp. as bringing success (win the day).
Idiom:
all in a (or the) day's work part of normal routine. at the end of the day in the final reckoning, when all is said and done. call it a day end a period of activity, esp. resting content that enough has been done. day after day without respite. day and night all the time. day-boy (or -girl) Brit. a boy or girl who goes daily from home to school, esp. a school that also has boarders. day by day gradually. day care the supervision of young children during the working day. day centre a place providing care for the elderly or handicapped during the day. day-dream n. a pleasant fantasy or reverie.
--v.intr. indulge in this. day-dreamer a person who indulges in day-dreams. day in, day out routinely, constantly. day labourer an unskilled labourer hired by the day. day lily any plant of the genus Hemerocallis, whose flowers last only a day. day nursery a nursery where children are looked after during the working day. day off a day's holiday from work. Day of Judgement = Judgement Day. day of reckoning see RECKONING. day of rest the Sabbath. day out a trip or excursion for a day. day-owl any owl hunting by day esp. the short-eared owl. day release Brit. a system of allowing employees days off work for education. day return a fare or ticket at a reduced rate for a journey out and back in one day. day-room a room, esp. a communal room in an institution, used during the day. day-school a school for pupils living at home. day-to-day mundane, routine. day-trip a trip or excursion completed in one day. day-tripper a person who goes on a day-trip. not one's day a day of successive misfortunes for a person. on one's day at one's peak of capability. one of these days before very long. one of those days a day when things go badly. some day at some point in the future. that will be the day colloq. that will never happen. this day and age the present time or period.
Derivative:
dayless adj.
Etymology:
OE d{aelig}g f. Gmc
N period, age, era, second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation, epoch, ghurry, lunation, moon, century, millennium, annus magnus, horary, hourly, annual.
N the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion, the times, the existing time, the time being, today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century, nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour, age, time of life, present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is, present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment, at this time, at this moment, at the present time, now, at present, at hand, at this time of day, today, nowadays, already, even now, but now, just now, on the present occasion, for the time being, for the nonce, pro hac vice, on the nail, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, until now, to this day, to the present day, the present hour alone is man's.
N light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil, sunbeam, moonbeam, aurora, day, sunshine, light of day, light of heaven, moonlight, starlight, sunlight, daylight, broad daylight, noontide light, noontide, noonday, noonday sun, glow, glimmering, glint, play of light, flood of light, phosphorescence, lambent flame, flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola, spark, scintilla, facula, sparkling, emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration, flame, lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection, gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor, effulgence, refulgence, fulgor, fulgidity, dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency, luminousness, luminosity, lucidity, renitency, nitency, radiance, radiation, irradiation, illumination, actinic rays, actinism, Roentgen-ray, Xray, photography, heliography, photometer, optics, photology, photometry, dioptrics, catoptrics, chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality, reflection, refraction, dispersion, refractivity, shining, luminous, luminiferous, lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous, light, lightsome, bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent, sheen, sheeny, glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian, noonday, tide, cloudless, clear, unclouded, unobscured, gairish, garish, resplendent, transplendent, refulgent, effulgent, fulgid, fulgent, relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent, aglow, bright as silver, light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday, actinic, photogenic, graphic, heliographic, heliophagous, a day for gods to stoop and men to soar, dark with excessive bright.
admission day, all day long, all fools' day, all saints' day, all souls' day, american indian day, annunciation day, april fools' day, arbor day, armed forces day, armistice day, ascension day, bastille day, bissextile day, boxing day, break of day, break of the day, by the day, calendar day, call it a day, candlemas day, childermas day, christian holy day, christmas day, citizenship day, civil day, clarence day, clarence shepard day jr., class day, columbus day, commencement day, commonwealth day, day after day, day bed, day blindness, day boarder, day book, day by day, day camp, day care, day care center, day game, day in and day out, day in day out, day jessamine, day laborer, day labourer, day lily, day nursery, day of atonement, day of judgement, day of judgment, day of reckoning, day of remembrance, day of rest, day of the month, day of the week, day off, day return, day school, day shift, day watch, decoration day, degree day, discovery day, dominion day, each day, easter day, election day, ember day, empire day, every day, fast day, father's day, feast day, fete day, field day, flag day, forever and a day, future day, gain the day, good day, groundhog day, guy fawkes day, high holy day, holy day, holy day of obligation, holy innocents' day, inauguration day, independence day, innocents' day, jewish holy day, judgement day, judgment day, labor day, lady day, lammas day, last day, leap day, lord's day, lunar day, major fast day, market day, martin luther king day, may day, mean solar day, memorial day, michaelmas day, midsummer day, midsummer's day, minor fast day, mother's day, naked as the day one was born, naked as the day you were born, name day, natal day, new year's day, night and day, order of the day, pan american day, pancake day, patriot's day, patriots' day, pioneers' day, polling day, poppy day, present day, presidents' day, quarter day, rag day, rainy day, red-letter day, remembrance day, rest day, robert e lee day, rogation day, saint patrick's day, saint valentine's day, saint's day, school day, seize the day, sidereal day, six day war, solar day, speech day, st john's day, st martin's day, st patrick's day, st valentine's day, tag day, term day, texas independence day, thanksgiving day, three kings' day, time of day, transfiguration day, twelfth day, united nations day, unlucky day, v-e day, v-j day, valentine day, valentine's day, veterans day, veterans' day, victoria day, victory day, washing day, wedding day, work day, working day