new
/nu/ adjective A1- Recently made, or created. · This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.· The cookers cost £350 new but £150 secondhand.
- Of recent origin; having taken place recently. · I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new. Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre?
- Additional; recently discovered. · We turned up some new evidence from the old files.
- Current or later, as opposed to former. · 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.
- Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing. · New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.
- In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used. · Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?
- Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
- Newborn. · My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.
Comparative newer · Superlative newest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Toto did not approve of this new comrade at first, for he could not forget how nearly he had been crushed between the Lion’s great jaws.
Both Dorothy and the Scarecrow had been greatly interested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now they knew why he was so anxious to get a new heart.
She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.
Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
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