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New can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
new used as an adjective:
- Recently made, or created.
"This is a new scratch on my car!" - Additional; recently discovered.
"We turned up some new evidence from the old files." - Current or later, as opposed to former.
"My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older." - Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
"New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street." - In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
"Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?" - Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
"That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one." - Young.
"My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild." - Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
"I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new." - Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
"The idea was new to me." - Recently arrived or appeared.
"Have you met the new guy in town?" - Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
"Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time." - next; about to begin or recently begun
"We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
new used as an adverb:
- See new-
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
new used as a noun:
- Things that are new.
"Out with the old, in with the new." - A kind of light beer.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is new?
- Adjective usage: This is a new scratch on my car!
- Adjective usage: The band just released a new album.
- Adjective usage: We turned up some new evidence from the old files.
- Adjective usage: My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older.
- Adjective usage: We had been in our new house for five years by then.
- Adjective usage: New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.
- Adjective usage: Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?
- Adjective usage: That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one.
- Adjective usage: I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep.
- Adjective usage: After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes.
- Adjective usage: My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.
- Adjective usage: I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new.
- Adjective usage: Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre?
- Adjective usage: The idea was new to me.
- Adjective usage: I need to meet new people.
- Adjective usage: Have you met the new guy in town?
- Adjective usage: She is the new kid at school.
- Adjective usage: Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time.
- Adjective usage: I'm new at this business.
- Adjective usage: We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade.
- Noun usage: Out with the old, in with the new.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of new are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of new, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
