From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
new
adv 1: 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: newly, freshly, fresh,
new]
adj 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: original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer
produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
[syn: fresh, new, novel]
3: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new]
4: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time
of unexampled prosperity" [syn: new, unexampled]
5: 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: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" [ant:
worn]
7: (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled
ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never
uses them" [syn: newfangled, new]
8: in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language
of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
9: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
[syn: Modern, New]
10: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development;
before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn:
new, young]
11: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him";
"errors of someone new to the job"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
New \New\ (n[=u]), a. [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.
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2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately
manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new
planet; new scenes.
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3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now
commencing; different from what has been; as, a new year;
a new course or direction.
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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.
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Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. --Bk. of
Com. Prayer.
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Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost
new. --Bacon.
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5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient
descent; not previously known or famous. --Addison.
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6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
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New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. --Pope.
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7. Fresh from anything; newly come.
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New from her sickness to that northern air.
--Dryden.
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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. (Zool.) 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.
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Syn: Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
New \New\ (n[=u]), adv.
Newly; recently. --Chaucer.
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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.
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Of new, anew. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
New \New\, v. t. & i.
To make new; to renew. [Obs.]
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