fresh

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Recently made, picked, or produced; not old or stale.

   I love the smell of fresh bread in the morning.

2. 2
   adj

   Not preserved by canning, freezing, or other methods.

   She bought fresh vegetables at the market.

3. 3
   adj

   New; just started.

   After the holiday I felt ready for a fresh start.

4. 4
   adj

   Clean and not yet used.

   He put on a fresh shirt for the meeting.

5. 5
   adj

   Containing no salt; from rivers or rain rather than the sea.

   Fish in this lake need fresh water to survive.

Common collocations

• fresh air Adjective + noun
• fresh coffee Adjective + noun
• fresh fish Adjective + noun
• fresh food Adjective + noun
• fresh water Adjective + noun
• fresh start Adjective + noun

From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective. Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Norwegian and Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sw…

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