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BRAN-NEW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bran-new mean?
• BRAN-NEW (adjective)
The adjective BRAN-NEW has 1 sense:
1. conspicuously new
Familiarity information: BRAN-NEW used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conspicuously new
Synonyms:
bran-new; brand-new; spic-and-span; spick-and-span
Context example:
a spick-and-span novelty
Similar:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Context examples
When he had fastened the Scarecrow's head on his body again he said to him, "Hereafter you will be a great man, for I have given you a lot of bran-new brains."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
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