New

/njuː/ · adjective

Meaning

Recently made, or created..

Definitions by Sense

1. Recently made, or created.
2. Additional; recently discovered.
3. Current or later, as opposed to former.
4. Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
5. In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
6. Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
7. Newborn.
8. Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.

Example Sentences

This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.

The cookers cost £350 new but £150 secondhand.

Within a half-hour, Gould (pronounced GOLD) was stirring in pieces of breaded and sautéed chicken, pouring the finished sauce over fettucini noodles cooked al dente and serving one of the newest entrees from his growing recipe file — rustic chicken — to Tanner, his 9-year-old twin brothers, Colton and Austin, and their parents.

Only a few nonsmart models, primarily newer Razr models and a few Nokia phones, can run Yahoo Go. And once again, no Verizon phones need apply.

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

We turned up some new evidence from the old files.

My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.

New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.

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Word Forms

• newer
• newest
• noo
• nu
• newe
• more new
• most new
• news
• newing
• newed

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