ENGLISH: new - CREOLE: nèf



Overview of adj new



The adj new has 11 senses (first 8 from tagged texts)



1. (980) new -- (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")

2. (326) new -- (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")

3. (161) new, unexampled -- (having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity")

4. (150) fresh, new, novel -- (original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem")

5. (15) raw, new -- (lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits")

6. (6) newfangled, new -- ((of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them")

7. (4) new -- (unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job")

8. (2) new, young -- ((of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn")

9. new -- (unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new")

10. New -- (in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties")

11. Modern, New -- (used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew")



Overview of adv new



The adv new has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (1) recently, newly, freshly, fresh, new -- (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")

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