new
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]new
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English newe, from Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos (“new”), from *néwos.
Cognate with Scots new (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Dutch nieuw (“new”), Low German nee (“new”), German neu (“new”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ny (“new”), Icelandic nýr (“new”), Faroese nýggjur (“new”), Latin novus (“new”), Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”), Welsh newydd (“new”), Russian но́вый (nóvyj, “new”), Armenian նոր (nor, “new”), Persian نو (“now”),Northern Kurdish nû (“new”), Hindi नया (nayā, “new”), Tocharian B ñuwe (“new”).
Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo and novuss.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /njuː/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) Audio (London): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /nu/
Audio (General American): (file)
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /njʉː/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /njʉ/
- (Wales) IPA(key): /nɪu̯/
- Homophones: gnu, knew, nu
- Rhymes: -uː
Adjective
[edit]new (comparative newer, superlative newest)
- Recently made, or created.
- 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
- 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.
- This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.
- 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.
- That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes.
- Newborn.
- My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.
- Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
- 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
- Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
- The idea was new to me. I need to meet new people.
- Recently arrived or appeared.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
- Have you met the new guy in town? He is the new kid at school.
- Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
- Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time. I'm new at this business.
- (of a period of time) Next; about to begin or recently begun.
- We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade.
Synonyms
[edit]- (recently made, created, or appeared): brand new, recent, neo-, ceno-
- (additional, recently discovered): recent
- (current or later): current
- (in original condition, pristine): brand new, brand spanking new, mint, pristine
- (refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed): born-again, reformed, refreshed, reinvigorated, revived
- (newborn): newborn, young
- (of recent origin): fresh
- (strange, unfamiliar): strange, unfamiliar
- (recently arrived or appeared): novel, singular
- (inexperienced, unaccustomed): brand new, green
- See also Thesaurus:new
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “recently made, created, or appeared”): ancient, dated, old
- (antonym(s) of “additional, recently discovered”): dated, old
- (antonym(s) of “current or later”): former, old
- (antonym(s) of “distinguishing something established more recently”): old
- (antonym(s) of “in original condition, pristine”): old, used, worn
- (antonym(s) of “refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed”): old
- (antonym(s) of “young”): old
- (antonym(s) of “of recent origin”): original, previous
- (antonym(s) of “strange, unfamiliar”): familiar, old
- (antonym(s) of “recently arrived or appeared”): established
- (antonym(s) of “inexperienced, unaccustomed”): accustomed, experienced, expert
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- all-new
- anew
- ennew
- German New Guinea
- innew
- neumorphism
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- New Age
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- New Amsterdam
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- New Australia
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- newbie
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- New Braunfels
- new bread
- New Brighton
- New Britain
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- New Brunswick
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- Newbury
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- new candle
- New Carrollton
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- Newcastle
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- newchurch
- Newchurch
- new circus
- New City
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- New Cordell
- new-country project
- new country project
- newcreate
- New Cross
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- new dawn
- New Delhi
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- new drachma
- new duck disease
- New Durham
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- New Earswick
- newel
- New Eltham
- New Empire
- New England
- newfag
- newfangle
- newfangled
- newfashion
- newfind
- New Forest
- newform
- newfound
- Newfoundland
- newfriend
- New Frontier
- newfur
- New Galloway
- Newgarden
- Newgate
- New Georgia
- new ginger
- Newgrange
- newgrass
- newgroup
- new guard
- New Guinea
- New Hampshire
- New Hampton
- New Hanover County
- New Hartley
- New Haw
- New Hebrides
- New Holland
- New Holstein
- Newhouse
- New Hudson
- New Hudson
- New Iberia
- newie
- new immigrant
- New Inn
- newish
- new-ish
- New Islington
- New Jalpaiguri
- New Jersey
- New Kent
- New Kent County
- New Lane
- newless
- New Lexington
- newline
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- New Lisbon
- New London
- new-look
- New Luce
- newly
- New Lynn
- newlywed
- newmade
- New Madrid
- new-make
- New Malden
- Newman
- Newmarket
- New Marske
- New Martinsville
- new materialism
- new methylene blue
- New Mexico
- New Milford
- Newmill
- New Mills
- New Milton
- new moon
- new nation project
- newness
- new Nordic cuisine
- New Norfolk
- New Norfolk
- new normal
- New Norse
- New Orleans
- New Palestine
- New Passage
- New Philadelphia
- new potato
- New Providence
- New Quay, Newquay
- New Rackheath
- New Radnor
- new realism
- new realist
- new reality
- new-rich
- New Roads
- New Rochelle
- New Rockford
- New Romney
- New Ross
- news
- news-
- new-school
- New Silksworth
- New Silksworth
- new skool
- New Southgate
- New South Wales
- newspeak
- Newspeak
- NewSQL
- New Street
- New Taibei
- New Taipei
- New Tecumseth
- New Tehri
- New Testament
- newth
- New Thoughtism
- Newton
- new town
- Newtown
- New Tredegar
- New Ulm
- New Valley
- new wave
- New Weird
- New Westminster
- New Whittington
- New Whittington
- New Windsor
- New World
- newy
- New Year
- New York
- New Zealand
- nonnew
- Noogler
- overnew
- renew
- seminew
- spang-new
- splinter-new
- supernew
- Times New Roman
- what else is new
- what's new
- New Athens
- New Baden
- New Bedford
- New Berlin
- New Boston
- New Burnside
- New Bush
- New Canton
- New Castle
- New City
- New Columbia
- New Delhi
- New Dennison
- New Diggins
- New Douglas
- New Grand Chain
- New Hannover
- New Haven
- New Hebron
- New Holland
- New Hope
- New Lebanon
- New Lennox
- New Liberty
- New Memphis
- New Milford
- New Minden
- New Palestine
- New Salem
- Newtown
- New Trier
- New Albany
- New Alsace
- New Amsterdam
- New Baltimore
- New Boston
- New Britton
- New Brunswick
- New Burlington
- New Carlisle
- New Carrolton
- New Castle
- New Chicago
- New Columbus
- New Discovery
- New Durham
- New Elizabethtown
- New Elliott
- New Era
- New Fairfield
- New Farmington
- New Frankfort
- New Goshen
- New Harmony
- New Haven
- New Hope
- New Lancastor
- Newland
- New Lebanon
- New Liberty
- New Lisbon
- New London
- New Marion
- New Market
- New Maysville
- New Middletown
- New Mount Pleasant
- New Palestine
- New Paris
- New Pekin
- New Pennington
- New Philadelphia
- New Pittsburg
- New Point
- New Richmond
- New Ross
- New Salem
- New Salisbury
- New Santa Fe
- Newtown
- New Trenton
- New Unionville
- Newville
- New Washington
- New Waverly
- New Whiteland
- New Winchester
- New Albany
- New Alexander
- New Alexandria
- New Antioch
- New Athens
- New Baltimore
- New Bavaria
- New Bloomington
- New Boston
- New Bremen
- New Buffalo
- New Burlington
- New California
- New Carlisle
- New Castle
- New Cleveland
- New Concord
- New Cumberland
- New Dover
- New Floodwood
- New Franklin
- New Garden
- New Germany
- New Hampshire
- New Hampton
- New Harmony
- New Harrisburg
- New Harrison
- New Haven
- New Holland
- New Hope
- New Jasper
- New Jerusalem
- New Knoxville
- New Lebanon
- New Lexington
- New London
- New Madison
- New Market
- New Marshfield
- New Martinsburg
- New Miami
- New Middleton
- New Middletown
- New Milford
- New Moorefield
- New Palestine
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- New Petersburg
- New Philadelphia
- New Pittsburg
- New Plymouth
- Newport
- New Princeton
- New Reading
- New Richland
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- New Riegel
- New Rochester
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- New Salem
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- New Straitsville
- New Strasburg
- Newtown
- New Vienna
- Newville
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- New Waterford
- New Way
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- New Baden
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- New Chapel Hill
- New Colony
- New Danville
- New Deal
- New Fairview
- New Falcon
- New Fountain
- Newgulf
- New Harmony
- New Home
- New Hope
- New London
- New Lynn
- New Mesquite
- New Mexico
- New Summerfield
- New Sweden
- New Taiton
- New Territory
- New Ulm
- New Waverly
- New Wehdem
- New York
- a new broom sweeps clean
- as good as new
- baby needs new shoes
- brand-new
- brand spanking new
- bran-new
- brave new world
- break new ground
- bright as a new button
- bright as a new coin
- bright as a new dollar
- bright as a new penny
- bright as a new pin
- clean as a new penny
- clean as a new pin
- dance to a new tune
- dawn of a new day
- emperor's new clothes
- everything old is new again
- find a new gear
- fire-new
- good as new
- like new
- like the new time
- neat as a new pin
- new adult
- new age
- new age traveller
- new atheism
- new atheist
- new Australian
- new ball
- new beat
- new blood
- new-born
- new brooms sweep clean
- new bug
- new-build
- new-car smell
- new class
- new cocoyam
- new-coin
- new-comer
- new comer
- new energy vehicle
- new fangled
- new-fangled
- new-fashioned
- new-found
- new-founded
- new-front
- new-furnish
- new game +
- new game plus
- new historicism
- new jack
- new jack swing
- new jade
- new jill swing
- new kid on the block
- new lad
- new laddish
- new lease of life
- new lease on life
- new legs
- new-made
- new man
- new math
- new media
- new-model
- new modelize
- new money
- new-mown
- new mysterianism
- new-name
- new name
- new normal
- new penny
- new political thinking
- new relationship energy
- new religious movement
- New Russian
- new school
- new shekel
- new sheqel
- new silver
- new starter
- new thinking
- new-wave
- new waver
- new-wavish
- new wavish
- new wine
- new wine in an old bottle
- new wine in an old wineskin
- new world order
- new year
- new zaïre
- nothing new under the sun
- of new
- old wine in a new bottle
- old wine in new bottles
- pastures new
- rip someone a new asshole
- rip someone a new one
- second new ball
- semi-new
- spanking new
- span-new
- split-new
- tear someone a new asshole
- tear someone a new one
- the new black
- there is a new sheriff in town
- there is nothing new under the sun
- turn a new leaf
- turn over a new leaf
- what's old is new again
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope
- you learn something new every day
- you must be new here
Translations
[edit]Adverb
[edit]new (comparative more new, superlative most new)
- Synonym of newly, especially in composition.
- As new; from scratch.
Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]new (usually uncountable, plural news)
- Things that are new.
- Out with the old, in with the new.
- (Australia, uncountable) A typically light-coloured lager brewed by the bottom-fermentation method.
- Antonym: old
- (UK, naval slang) A naval cadet who has just embarked on training.
- 1956, Naval Review (London), volume 44, page 286:
- In the Britannia "news" were worms, to be trodden on […]
Verb
[edit]new (third-person singular simple present news, present participle newing, simple past and past participle newed)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Adjective
[edit]new (strong nominative masculine singular newer, comparative newer, superlative am newesten or am newsten)
- Obsolete spelling of neu.
- 1552, Hans Gerle, Ein Newes sehr künstlichs Lautenbuch (printed in Nürnberg)
- 1581, Ein new Kochbuch / Das ist Ein grundtliche beschreibung […] (printed in Frankfurt am Main)
- 1629, Johann Deucer, Ein Newes, Schönes, sehr Nützliches Betbuch (printed in Leipzig)
- 1653, Ein newes Lied: Welches bey der Römischen Königlichen Crönung Ferdinandi deß Vierten in Regenspürg den 18. Junij 1653 ist musiciert worden:
- 1706, Moritz Pfleyer, Gedeonische Wunder-Fakel auff ein newes entzündt in dem glorwürdigen heiligen Blut-Zeugen Christi Leontio:
Declension
[edit]number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist new | sie ist new | es ist new | sie sind new | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | newer | newe | newes | newe |
genitive | newen | newer | newen | newer | |
dative | newem | newer | newem | newen | |
accusative | newen | newe | newes | newe | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der newe | die newe | das newe | die newen |
genitive | des newen | der newen | des newen | der newen | |
dative | dem newen | der newen | dem newen | den newen | |
accusative | den newen | die newe | das newe | die newen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein newer | eine newe | ein newes | (keine) newen |
genitive | eines newen | einer newen | eines newen | (keiner) newen | |
dative | einem newen | einer newen | einem newen | (keinen) newen | |
accusative | einen newen | eine newe | ein newes | (keine) newen |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist newer | sie ist newer | es ist newer | sie sind newer | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | newerer | newere | neweres | newere |
genitive | neweren | newerer | neweren | newerer | |
dative | newerem | newerer | newerem | neweren | |
accusative | neweren | newere | neweres | newere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der newere | die newere | das newere | die neweren |
genitive | des neweren | der neweren | des neweren | der neweren | |
dative | dem neweren | der neweren | dem neweren | den neweren | |
accusative | den neweren | die newere | das newere | die neweren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein newerer | eine newere | ein neweres | (keine) neweren |
genitive | eines neweren | einer neweren | eines neweren | (keiner) neweren | |
dative | einem neweren | einer neweren | einem neweren | (keinen) neweren | |
accusative | einen neweren | eine newere | ein neweres | (keine) neweren |
Japanese
[edit]For pronunciation and definitions of new – see the following entry. | ||
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(This term, new (new), is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
Malecite-Passamaquoddy
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[a], [b] ← 3 | 4 | 5 → |
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Cardinal: new Ordinal: newewey Adverbial: newokehs Adnominal: newwok, newonul |
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Algonquian *nye·wi (“four”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]new (initial root new-)
- four (in counting)
References
[edit]- Passamaquoddy-Maliseet language portal
- LeSourd, Philip S. (1993) Accent and Syllable Structure in Passamaquoddy, New York: Garland Publishing
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]new
- Alternative form of newe
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]new
- Alternative form of noy
Zazaki
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa. Related to Persian نه (noh).
Numeral
[edit]new
- Translingual lemmas
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