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BRAND-NEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brand-new mean? 

BRAND-NEW (adjective)
  The adjective BRAND-NEW has 1 sense:

1. conspicuously newplay

  Familiarity information: BRAND-NEW used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRAND-NEW (adjective)


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)

Derivation:

brand-newness (the property of being very new)


 Context examples 


I've tried war and steeplechasin' and aeroplanes, but this huntin' of beasts that look like a lobster-supper dream is a brand-new sensation.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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