Definition of new

"new" in the adjective sense

1. new

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"

2. fresh, new, novel

original and of a kind not seen before

"the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"

3. raw, new

lacking training or experience

"the new men were eager to fight"

"raw recruits"

4. new, unexampled

having no previous example or precedent or parallel

"a time of unexampled prosperity"

5. new

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. new

unaffected by use or exposure

"it looks like new"

7. New

in use after medieval times

"New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"

8. Modern, New

used of a living language being the current stage in its development

"Modern English"

"New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"

9. new, young

of crops) harvested at an early stage of development before complete maturity

"new potatoes"

"young corn"

10. new

often followed by `to') unfamiliar

"new experiences"

"experiences new to him"

"errors of someone new to the job"

"new" in the adverb sense

1. newly, freshly, fresh, new

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"

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Quotations for new

Spick and span new. [ -Cervantes ]

New things are fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Turn over a new leaf. [ Thomas Dekker ]

New brooms sweep clean. [ Proverb ]

Everything new is fine. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

New lords have new laws. [ Proverb ]

New grief awakens the old. [ Proverb ]

In pain is a new time born. [ Chamisso ]

An old friend is a new house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Of a new prince, new bondage. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every day brings a new light. [ Proverb ]

New things are most looked at. [ Proverb ]

New occasions teach new duties. [ James Russell Lowell ]

New dishes beget new appetites. [ Proverb ]

Old reckonings make new quarrels. [ Proverb ]

To put new handles to an old pot. [ Proverb ]

Old thanks pay not for a new debt. [ Proverb ]

Navigation adds new worlds to the old. [ S. Cabot ]

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. [ William Shakespeare ]

Tired of the last, and eager of the new. [ Prior ]

By navigation new worlds are made known. [ J. G. Zarco ]

Your old brass will bring you a new pan. [ Proverb ]

That was new in last year's new almanack. [ Proverb ]

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is an old story, yet remains ever new. [ Heinrich Heine ]

To-morrow a new scene of things may open. [ Proverb ]

Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. [ Milton ]

New dressed and blooming as a bridal maid. [ Walter Harte ]

Always something new, seldom anything good. [ German Proverb ]

Every one hath a penny for the new alehouse. [ Proverb ]

Old porridge is sooner warmed than new made. [ Proverb ]

Remembering of old injuries invites new ones. [ Proverb ]

When a new book comes out, I read an old one. [ Rogers ]

Old acquaintances are better than new friends. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

There is nothing new except what is forgotten. [ Mademoiselle Bertin ]

The geologist is a new species of antiquarian. [ ? ]

Every age confutes old errors, and begets new. [ Proverb ]

This fidelity will bring new glory to our race. [ Motto ]

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break. [ Dryden ]

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man. [ George MacDonald ]

We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Whatever good is said of us, we learn nothing new. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant. [ Macaulay ]

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time. [ Heine ]

An old cart well used may last out a new one abused. [ Proverb ]

A thinking man is always striking out something new. [ Proverb ]

Gratitude preserves old friendship, and procures new. [ Proverb ]

What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one. [ William Shakespeare ]

The old withie-tree would have a new gate hung at it. [ Proverb ]

Search not a wound too deep, lest thou make a new one. [ Proverb ]

Sin every day takes out a patent for some new invention. [ Whipple ]

It it often easier to make new, than to cobble up the old. [ Proverb ]

A new friend is sometimes only a troublesome acquaintance. [ James Ellis ]

One seeks new friends only when too well known by old ones. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

I must have something new, even were there none in the world. [ La Fontaine ]

There is no more hold of a new friend, than of a new fashion. [ Proverb ]

All things must change to something new, to something strange. [ Longfellow ]

The day that you do a good thing there will be seven new moons. [ Proverb ]

And let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [ Izaak Walton ]

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Old houses mended cost little less than new before they're ended. [ Gibber ]

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. [ Wm. Ellery Channing ]

Go on in new deeds of valour, my son! That is the way to the stars. [ Virgil ]

Day presses on the heels of day, and new moons hasten to their wane. [ Horace ]

Then came your new friend: you began to change - I saw it and grieved. [ Tennyson ]

The best way to keep good acts in memory, is to refresh them with new. [ Cato ]

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. [ Abbe Trublet ]

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou callest new flowers to birth. [ Schiller ]

The old falls, the time changes, and new life blossoms out of the ruins. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. [ Thackeray ]

The great objection to new books is, that they prevent our reading old ones. [ Joseph Joubert ]

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. [ Goldsmith ]

Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure. [ Young ]

All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great. [ Bacon ]

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new. [ Emerson ]

Stinging envy is more merciful to good things that are old than such as are new. [ Phaedr ]

New national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

new in Scrabble®

The word new is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters new:

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The 32 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In new

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new in Words With Friends™

The word new is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters new:

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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word new

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The 33 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In new

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Words containing the sequence new

Words that end with new (9 words)

Word Growth involving new

Shorter words in new

(No shorter words found)

Longer words containing new

anew banewort baneworts

anew danewort daneworts

anew decanewton decanewtons

anew exanewton exanewtons

anew giganewton giganewtons

anew laneway laneways

anew meganewton meganewtons

anew petanewton petanewtons

anew teranewton teranewtons

anew yottanewton yottanewtons

anew zettanewton zettanewtons

brandnew

honewort honeworts

knew foreknew

knew preknew

linewalker linewalkers

minework mineworker mineworkers

newbie newbies

newborn newborns

newcomer newcomers

newel newels

newer renewer renewers

newest

newfangled newfangledly

newfangled newfangledness

newfanglement newfanglements

newfound

newish

newline newlines

newly newlywed newlyweds

newness

news newsagencies

news newsagency

news newsagent newsagents

news newsbeat

news newsboard newsboards

news newsbook newsbooks

news newsboy newsboys

news newsbreak newsbreaks

news newsbrief newsbriefs

news newscast newscaster newscasters

news newscast newscasting newscastings

news newscast newscasts

news newsdealer newsdealers

news newsdesk newsdesks

news newsfax newsfaxes

news newsflash newsflashes

news newsgatherer newsgatherers

news newsgathering

news newsgirl newsgirls

news newsgroup newsgroups

news newshawk newshawks

news newshound newshounds

news newsier

news newsiest

news newsless

news newsletter newsletters

news newslink newslinks

news newsmagazine newsmagazines

news newsmaker newsmakers

news newsman

news newsmen

news newsmonger newsmongered

news newsmonger newsmongerer newsmongerers

news newsmonger newsmongeries

news newsmonger newsmongering

news newsmonger newsmongers

news newsmonger newsmongery

news newspaper newspapering

news newspaper newspaperman

news newspaper newspapermen

news newspaper newspapers

news newspaper newspaperwoman

news newspaper newspaperwomen

news newsprint newsprints

news newsreader newsreaders

news newsreel newsreels

news newsroom newsrooms

news newssheet newssheets

news newsstand newsstands

news newsvendor newsvendors

news newsweeklies

news newsweekly

news newswire newswires

news newswoman

news newswomen

news newsworthier

news newsworthiest

news newsworthiness

news newsworthy

news newswriter newswriters

news newswriting newswritings

news newsy

news nonnews

news renews selfrenews

news sinews

newt newton attonewton attonewtons

newt newton centinewton centinewtons

newt newton decanewton decanewtons

newt newton decinewton decinewtons

newt newton exanewton exanewtons

newt newton femtonewton femtonewtons

newt newton giganewton giganewtons

newt newton hectonewton hectonewtons

newt newton kilonewton kilonewtons

newt newton meganewton meganewtons

newt newton micronewton micronewtons

newt newton millinewton millinewtons

newt newton nanonewton nanonewtons

newt newton newtonian newtonianism

newt newton newtonic

newt newton newtons attonewtons

newt newton newtons centinewtons

newt newton newtons decanewtons

newt newton newtons decinewtons

newt newton newtons exanewtons

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newt newton newtons giganewtons

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newt newton newtons kilonewtons

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newt newton newtons micronewtons

newt newton newtons millinewtons

newt newton newtons nanonewtons

newt newton newtons petanewtons

newt newton newtons piconewtons

newt newton newtons teranewtons

newt newton newtons yoctonewtons

newt newton newtons yottanewtons

newt newton newtons zeptonewtons

newt newton newtons zettanewtons

newt newton petanewton petanewtons

newt newton piconewton piconewtons

newt newton teranewton teranewtons

newt newton yoctonewton yoctonewtons

newt newton yottanewton yottanewtons

newt newton zeptonewton zeptonewtons

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oneway

renew renewabilities

renew renewability

renew renewable nonrenewable

renew renewably

renew renewal nonrenewal nonrenewals

renew renewal renewals nonrenewals

renew renewal renewals selfrenewals

renew renewal selfrenewal selfrenewals

renew renewed renewedly

renew renewed renewedness

renew renewed selfrenewed

renew renewed unrenewed

renew renewer renewers

renew renewing renewings

renew renewing selfrenewing

renew renewment renewments

renew renews selfrenews

renew selfrenew selfrenewal selfrenewals

renew selfrenew selfrenewed

renew selfrenew selfrenewing

renew selfrenew selfrenews

scenewright scenewrights

sinew sinewed

sinew sinewier

sinew sinewiest

sinew sinewiness

sinew sinewing

sinew sinewless

sinew sinewous

sinew sinews

sinew sinewy

stonewall stonewalled

stonewall stonewaller stonewallers

stonewall stonewalling stonewallings

stonewall stonewalls

stoneware stonewares

stonewash stonewashed

stonewash stonewashes

stonewash stonewashing

stonework stoneworker stoneworkers

stonework stoneworking

stonework stoneworks

stonewort brimstonewort brimstoneworts

stonewort stoneworts brimstoneworts