English dictionary
new
adjectivePronunciation
njuː
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- (often followed by ‘to’) unfamiliar
adjective
- having no previous example or precedent or parallel
adjective
- (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
adjective
- lacking training or experience
adjective
- not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
adjective
- original and of a kind not seen before
adjective
- other than the former one(s); different
adjective
- unaffected by use or exposure
adverb
- very recently
Example sentences
new experiences
experiences new to him
errors of someone new to the job
a time of unexampled prosperity
new potatoes
young corn
the new men were eager to fight
raw recruits
a new law
new cars
a new comet
a new friend
a new year
the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
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
it looks like new
they are newly married
newly raised objections
a newly arranged hairdo
grass new washed by the rain
a freshly cleaned floor