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ADJECTIVE new COMPARATIVE newer SUPERLATIVE newest
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Definitions in simple English

new

If something is new, it is not old. They had a new car. In 1900, the idea was very new. If somebody is new, they are not experienced. They hired a new worker.

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 (= novel) original and of a kind not seen before the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem (= raw) lacking training or experience the new men were eager to fight raw recruits (= unexampled) having no previous example or precedent or parallel a time of unexampled prosperity 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 (= newly, freshly, fresh) 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 unaffected by use or exposure it looks like new unfamiliar new experiences experiences new to him errors of someone new to the job (= young) (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity new potatoes young corn (= newfangled) (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new newfangled ideas she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them

New

in use after medieval times New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties (= Modern) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development Modern English New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew

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new Modern young recent fresh

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Simple sentences

I thought you liked to learn new things.
No, he's not my new boyfriend.
Which is the capital of the United States, Washington or New York?
It's brand new.
New York is worth visiting.
New York is a big city.
The computer is new.
John lives in New York.
Every time I read this book, I find something new.
This hospital has a lot of new equipment.
All the class waited for the new teacher.
I'd like to live in New York.
First, I'm going to do an outline of my new website.
Oh, my white pants! And they were new.
The only useful answers are those that raise new questions.
My shoes are too small. I need new ones.
Every time I join a new game of Warcraft, I am pitted against a new team of adversaries.
The proliferation of Internet usage has given birth to a new generation of young people.
I have to get a new computer.
I need a new computer.
I'm going to buy myself a new camera, digital this time.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
Is this a new photo?

Movie subtitles

He resolved to build a new and more spectacular capital to the north, in Beijing.
As a new century dawned in 1 400, the emperor YongIe had another transport technology at his disposal, which had the potential to make him master, not just of the middle Kingdom, but of the entire global market.
When the new emperor called home Zheng He's mighty navy, he virtually guaranteed that it wouId be the West's version of civilization that would sweep the globe.
Along with Portugal, Spain had been first off the mark, seizing the initiative in the New World.
And with every new individual timepiece, a little bit more time ran out for the age of oriental predominance.
As England's population growth accelerated in the late 1 7th century, trade brought an influx of new nutrients like potatoes and sugar, while colonisation allowed the emigration of surplus people.
The new recruits are here!
Alright elders, alright. Our two new missionaries must be exhausted from all their travels.
And most important, a hip new prophet by the name of Joseph Smith.
He found a brand-new book about Jesus Christ!
And our new religion is All-American!
In ancient New York three men were about to cut off a Mormon woman's cli- toris.
So, did you find yourself a new. companion?
You shall lead the villagers to a new village.
Kapteyn would measure the plates, while Gill continued ro collect new ones.
New observations indicated that the Universe must be much bigger than what Kapteyn had proposed.
Slowly this new vision gained terrain.
That was something completely new and unheard of.
In March 1952, just before the new receiver was finished, I went to Kootwijk for a month and a half to calibrate our radio telescope.
For this we needed new scale-indicators in azimuth and height, corresponding to the horizontal and vertical movements of the telescope.
That was something completely new.
Dutch Astronomy had made a significant and valuable contribution to this new insight.
The Netherlands continue to play an important role in an area where new discoveries are still being made, new instruments are being developed and the frontiers of our know-how and knowledge are constantly being pushed out.
We always have to be prepared that new perspectives will come that are now beyond our imagination.
Apostles of a new Christianity.
We Saint-Simonians, who follow the teachings of our master, the late Count of Saint-Simon, a remarkable economist and philosopher, want to build a new society based on progress.
I don't know that friend. - He's a new one.
Shouldn't you be over there with your new friends?
It's the new rule.
The thing is, there's a bit of a new rule.
And they bust my new glasses.
Not really new news.
New identities.
New hope.
New house.
Welcome to your new fucking lives.
Class, this is our new student, Allison Argent.
Every new moon's just going to make him stronger.
I'm all about discovering new talents.
I find out something new about her every day, it seems like, and it's a pretty big thing that I would've never expected out of her.
Why are you checking this? That. the 1st report received said that the fireplace had already been inspected. But then, in the new report handed over, there was an amendment.

News and current affairs

Some have argued instead that gold's long upward march has been partly driven by the development of new financial instruments that make it easier to trade and speculate in gold.
NEW YORK - On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.
But a new aspiration toward social and economic equality, and international solidarity, is badly needed.
It has entered the history books as the beginning of something new, a new era perhaps, but in any case a time of change.
In Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair supported the US attitude entirely, the government introduced similar measures and even offered a new theory.
This is the beginning of a new authoritarianism.
Even though new standards would apply to suppliers from all exporting countries, compliance costs usually vary, meaning that those less equipped to meet higher standards could suffer.
He never found his way back, and when confronted with the New Politics of primaries and populism, he became dispirited when he could not cope with this new style.
Berlin today is vibrant and rejuvenated, rebuilt by the German peoples' hard work and sacrifice to unify the country, and an apt setting for the conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which I was there to attend.
But then technology, demographics, and globalization brought dramatic new challenges that the neoclassical approach could not foresee.
New thinking is required to manage these massive and systemic changes, as well as the integration of giants like China and India into the modern world.
Using this macro-historical framework, we can see Japanese deflation, European debt, and even the Arab Spring as phases of systemic changes within complex structures that are interacting with one another in a new, multipolar global system.
As legions of new consumers gain purchasing power, demand inevitably rises, driving up the price of scarce commodities.
By contrast, 2009 is likely to pave the way to a new form of bipolarity, but with China substituting for the Soviet Union.
But before this new order appears, the world may be faced with spreading disorder, if not outright chaos.
In fact, my formal residence is in New York City, but I am about to spend most of the next five months in Russia, training to be a cosmonaut in Star City, just outside Moscow.
It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed, or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.
New groups constantly emerge from the ruins of old ones.