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Meaning of new

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  new
      adv 1: 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: {newly}, {freshly}, {fresh},
             {new}]
      adj 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: original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer
         produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
         [syn: {fresh}, {new}, {novel}]
      3: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
         fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: {raw}, {new}]
      4: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time
         of unexampled prosperity" [syn: {new}, {unexampled}]
      5: 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"
      6: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" [ant:
         {worn}]
      7: (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled
         ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never
         uses them" [syn: {newfangled}, {new}]
      8: in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language
         of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
      9: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
         development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
         [syn: {Modern}, {New}]
      10: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development;
          before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn:
          {new}, {young}]
      11: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him";
          "errors of someone new to the job"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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