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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" [ant: old]

2: 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" [syn: {new(a)}]

3: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity" [syn: unexampled]

4: of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" [syn: fresh, novel]

5: lacking training or experience; "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" [syn: raw, {wet behind the ears(p)}]

6: of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion [syn: newfangled]

7: (often followed by `to') unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job" [syn: {new to(p)}]

8: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn: young]

9: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new"

10: in use after Medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"

11: used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" [syn: Modern] adv : 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" [syn: recently, newly, freshly, fresh]