new

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   very recently

   they are newly married

2. 2
   adj

   unfamiliar

   new experiences

3. 3
   adj

   lacking training or experience

   the new men were eager to fight

4. 4
   adj

   unaffected by use or exposure

   it looks like new

5. 5
   adj

   in use after medieval times

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

6. 6
   adj

   Recently made, or created.

   This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.

7. 7
   adj

   Additional; recently discovered.

   We turned up some new evidence from the old files.

8. 8
   adj

   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.

Etymology

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. Compare also Old English nū (“now”). More at now. Doublet of nuevo, novuss, and neo-. Cognates Cognate with Scots new (“new”), North Frisian nai, nei, nii (“new”), Saterland Frisian näi (“new”), West Frisian nij (“new”), Alemannic German nöi, nüüw (“new”), Bavarian neich (“new”), Cimbrian naüge (“new”), Dutch nieuw, nij (“new”), Dutch Low Saxon nij (“new”), German neu, new, neuw (“new”), Low German nee, neei (“new”), Luxembourgish…