fresh
- adjective
- /frɛʃ/
- This is a fresh shipment this morning.
- fresh fruit
- fresh vegetables
- fresh produce
I just love the fresh snap of a cucumber.
- I just love the fresh snap of a cucumber.
- The rice is hot, cooked fresh, but it is warm.
- Add half a cup of fresh squeezed lemon juice.
- Nobody people don't care if it ain't fresh, boy, we serving that.
- It's like dry herbs are fine, but fresh herbs just give the food life.
- You just, it just has to be fresh free flying food bits.
Examples
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I'm going to get some fresh garlic in there too.
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Hello gentlemen, fresh fruit for you.
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So the plants will stay alive and fresh for one or two weeks.
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Would you like a fresh one?
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I just love the fresh snap of a cucumber.
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Add half a cup of fresh squeezed lemon juice.
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And there you go, a bowl of fresh Thai lemongrass soup.
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A fresh cup of tea is poured for the loved one departing.
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At Crystal Waters, we ate fresh, local, organic vegetables that made every alternative a culinary sacrifice.
Academic text (2008) -
I always buy fresh vegetables from the market to cook healthy meals.
Synonyms
Very clean and fresh, like new
Firm and easily broken, often fresh and not soft
Just made in an oven and still warm, like bread or cookies
A plant or food cut very recently so it still looks and smells new
Not rotten and still fresh, like leaves or wood
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Not having any left of something or having just finished something like school
Compounds
How Fresh
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fresh comes from the Old English word fersc, which meant 'not salted' or 'pure' and is like German frisch. So food that is fresh is recently made or gathered, not preserved or stale.