new
- adjective
- /nuː/
- We have hired several new employees to help with the increased workload.
- a new student
- a new teacher
- new to the job
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Examples
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This must be a new experience for you.
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One of the complaints I hear from new users is that they find the interface confusing.
Academic text (2011) -
These are my new clients.
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Are you the new guy?
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We could sure use some new blood around here.
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What is drawing me to this new person?
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Our new nanny just quit.
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Awaiting the appointment of a new manager also added to the stress felt in the unit.
Academic text (2011) -
I know that you're new to DC, and I wanted to, um, network.
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Please, everyone, welcome the new headmaster of Henenlotter High!
Synonyms
Not having much skill or practice
Having no teaching or practice to do a task well
New and without much experience in a job or activity
People who do not know about a subject or activity
Not experienced at doing something
Not skilled at a task or subject
Has little skill or experience in a particular activity
Not having much practical experience or training
Not having experience in a subject or activity
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
New ideas put into an old way that do not bring real change
Compounds
A northeastern US state with Albany as capital and New York City as its largest city
The continents of North and South America that Europeans settled from the late 1400s
A series of government reforms and programs in the United States from 1933 to 1940 under President Roosevelt
A large place in New York where people buy and sell shares of companies
A tender cut of beef from the upper part of the cow's back often cooked as a steak
A large government program of reforms and public spending based on 1930s United States policies
- Jargon
An effort by the Catholic Church to bring people back to faith where it is declining
A movement in 1950s and 1960s French films that used new ways of telling stories and showing images
A solemn Jewish festival that marks the start of the year with prayers and the blowing of a horn
A monkey from Central and South America with a flat nose and often a tail that can hold things
A group of islands that includes New Zealand's North and South Islands and nearby smaller islands
A thick creamy soup from New England made with clams, potatoes, onions, and milk
A set of government programs in the 1930s in the United States to fight the Great Depression
- Literature
A former name for the island group now called Vanuatu in the southwest Pacific
- Archaic
A way of studying literature that focuses on a text's language and form, not the author's life or history
- Formal
A form of Latin used since the Renaissance for science, study, and naming plants and animals
A very high steel arch bridge that crosses the New River at Fayetteville, West Virginia
- NSFW
A communist armed group formed in 1969 to fight the Philippine government
- Formal
A view in philosophy that the world exists by itself and can be known directly
A later part of the Stone Age when people begin farming and make polished stone tools
How Experienced
Surface Forms
Etymology
New was used for anything 'recent' or 'just arrived', which is why we call someone a newcomer when they are just starting. So new can mean a person who lacks experience in something.