What does newly mean?

Definitions for newly
ˈnu li, ˈnyu-new·ly

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word newly.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. newly, freshly, fresh, newadverb

    very recently

    "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes"

Wiktionary

  1. newlyadverb

    In a new manner.

    She smelled the newly budding flowers.

  2. Etymology: From newly, newely, neweliche, from niwlice, equivalent to. Compare nieuwelijks,

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Newlyadverb

    Freshly; lately.

    Etymology: from new.

    Such is the power of that sweet passion,
    That it all sordid baseness doth repel,
    And the refined mind doth newly fashion
    Into a fairer form. Edmund Spenser, Hymn on Love.

    Her breath indeed those hands have newly stopp'd. Sha.

    They newly learned by the king’s example, that attainders do not interrupt the conveying of title to the crown. Francis Bacon.

    Her lips were red, and one was thin,
    Compar’d to that was next her chin;
    Some bee had stung it newly. John Suckling.

    Then rubb'd it o'er with newly gather'd mint. Dryd.

ChatGPT

  1. newly

    Newly refers to something that has recently come into existence, been formed or started. It's an adverb that describes an action that has been undertaken or an status that has been achieved not long ago, or is newly completed or done.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Newlyadverb

    lately; recently

  2. Newlyadverb

    anew; afresh; freshly

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'newly' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3497

  2. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'newly' in Adverbs Frequency: #256

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of newly in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of newly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of newly in a Sentence

  1. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

    Hannity added. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has recently been clashing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and has suggested that Nancy Pelosi has been singling out Nancy Pelosi and three fellow freshman congresswomen because of race. But the persistent singling out... It got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful. ... The explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.

  2. Park Yoo-kyung:

    It is not that Elliott's demand is nonsense. Hyundai has accumulated cash, and it has a poor track record of using cash, but we decided to give (the newly created board) the benefit of the doubt.

  3. Dolly Lenz:

    Often the newly divorced can be a bit overwhelmed, and a smaller space is easier to handle.

  4. Jeremy Keenan:

    The study shows we can prevent young children from dying with a simple intervention, we could scale our newly studied intervention to reach millions of vulnerable children in resource-poor countries, in much the same way that trachoma programs, which give children and adults a single dose of azithromycin each year, have been doing for years.

  5. Philip Hammond:

    The newly established fintech bridge between the UK and the Republic of Korea is an important step for one of this country's most exciting industries, the government is determined to help the UK fintech sector to innovate and grow and to ensure that Britain remains the location of choice for fintech start-ups.

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