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say it: noo
new is an adjective and adverb meaning "not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered". It is pronounced /ˈnu/ — noo. It carries 11 recorded senses.
lacking training or experience
“the new men were eager to fight”
“raw recruits”
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”
in use after medieval times
“New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties”
linguistics
(often followed by `to') unfamiliar
“new experiences”
“experiences new to him”
“errors of someone new to the job”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for new come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.