Meaning & Definition of New in English

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"

2. Original and of a kind not seen before

• "The computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"

3. Lacking training or experience

• "The new men were eager to fight"

• "Raw recruits"

4. Having no previous example or precedent or parallel

• "A time of unexampled prosperity"

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"

7. (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new

• "Newfangled ideas"

• "She buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them"

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"

10. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development

• Before complete maturity

• "New potatoes"

• "Young corn"

11. Unfamiliar

• "New experiences"

• "Experiences new to him"

• "Errors of someone new to the job"

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"