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[ adjective ] not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
Examples "a new law" "new cars" "a new comet" "a new friend" "a new year" "the New World" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)Regarding Atlanta 's new million dollar airport , the jury recommended `` that when the new management takes_charge Jan. 1 the airport be operated in a manner that will eliminate political influences '' . Regarding Atlanta 's new million dollar airport , the jury recommended `` that when the new management takes_charge Jan. 1 the airport be operated in a manner that will eliminate political influences '' . The department apparently intends to make the Rural_Roads_Authority a revolving_fund under which new bonds would be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid_off by tax authorities . The Highway_Department source told The_Constitution , however , that Vandiver has not been consulted yet about the plans to issue the new rural roads bonds . After a long , hot controversy , Miller_County has a new school_superintendent , elected , as a policeman put it , in the `` coolest election I ever saw in_this county '' . |
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[ adjective ] other than the former one(s); different
Examples "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" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having no previous example or precedent or parallel
Synonyms Examples "a time of unexampled prosperity" Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)No one seriously contends , of_course , that the domineering wife is , sexually speaking , a new character in our world . (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)The first_step toward the goal is the establishment of a new atmosphere of mutual good_will and friendly communication on other_than the polemical level . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)There is a new atmosphere of urgency in Washington this week . (Harry Olesker, Impact....)Blanche knew something must be causing Stanley 's new , strange behavior but she never once connected it with Kitti_Walker . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of a kind not seen before
Examples "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)Each man can identify himself with the history and the death of Jesus_Christ because Jesus_Christ has identified himself with human history and human_death , coming as the head of a new humanity . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)But here we have a distinctly modern preoccupation ; we want to know why that book has kept_on selling the way it has ; we want_to know what is perennially new about Utopia . What is new about it ? Surely there is nothing new about communism . In a like sense whatever bits or shreds of previous conceptions one may find in it , Utopian communism remains , as an integral whole , original - a new thing . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking training or experience
Synonyms Examples "the new men were eager to fight" "raw recruits" "he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel" Used in print (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)First_of_all , no unit likes to have a new CO brought_in from the outside , especially when he 's an armchair trooper . He had enlisted in the Army straight out of high_school and had immediately set_about learning his new trade . Sergeant_Early let the new CO know just how lucky he was to be in the best troop in the best regiment in the United_States Army . The troop received a new leader , Lieutenant_Robert_M._Carroll , fresh out of ROTC and bucking for Regular_Army status . (Dell Shannon, The Ace of Spades....)And Mr._Skyros did n't like Angie , but what with Prettyman and three of his boys inside , and not likely to come_out - And Angie such a valuable salesman , Prettyman said - All the nuisance and danger of getting_in_touch with practically a whole new bunch of boys - Why did everything have to happen at_once ? Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion
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[ adjective ] (often followed by `to') unfamiliar
Synonyms Examples "new experiences" "experiences new to him" "errors of someone new to the job" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] unaffected by use or exposure
Examples "it looks like new" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)He opens his discourse , however , with a review of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities at which a sympathetic press had assembled its massive talents , all primed to catch some revelation of the emerging new age . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] very recently
Examples "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" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)in his motherland ; in the spacious hunting_grounds of `` Uncle_Sam '' ; in the exciting salons of his lovely , brilliant Paris - mistress of gaiety - excess and abandon - world theatre of new found freedoms in tone , color , dance , design , and thought . |
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[ adjective ] (linguistics) in use after Medieval times
Examples "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 3047
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[ adjective ] (linguistics) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
Synonyms Examples "Modern English" "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" Related terms |
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