fresh start

1. 1.

   an opportunity to start over without prejudice

   Synonymsclean slatetabula rasa

   Broaderopportunity

Questions about fresh start

What does fresh start mean?

fresh start means "an opportunity to start over without prejudice".

What is another word for fresh start?

Close synonyms include clean slate, tabula rasa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fresh start a common word?

fresh start is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.