adv
Meaning 1
Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She smelled the newly budding flowers.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
newly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːli/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ˈnjʉwlɪj/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈnuli/
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/ˈnjʉːli/
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Scotland: /ˈnjʉle/
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Scotland: /-lɪ/
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Scotland: /-li/
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Wales: /ˈnɪʊli/
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rhymes with -uːli
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CMU ARPABET: N UW1 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adverb
Meaning 2
very recently
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: freshly, fresh, new
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English newly, newely, neweliche, from Old English nīewlīċe (“newly”), equivalent to new + -ly. Compare Dutch nieuwelijks, German neulich, Danish nylig, Icelandic nýlega. More at new, -ly.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: rishtazi — Very recently
- Azerbaijani: təzəlikcə — Very recently
- Bulgarian: наскоро (naskoro) — Very recently
- Bulgarian: неотдавна (neotdavna) — Very recently
- Catalan: novament — Very recently
- Esperanto: nove — Very recently
- Esperanto: ĵus — Very recently
- Faroese: nýliga — Very recently
- Finnish: vasta — Very recently
- Finnish: vastikään — Very recently
- French: nouvellement — Very recently
- French: récemment — Very recently
- German: neu — Very recently
- Latin: nuper — Very recently
- Malayalam: പുതുതായി (pututāyi) — Very recently
- Persian: نو (now) — Very recently
- Portuguese: recém- — Very recently
- Russian: вновь (vnovʹ) — Very recently
- Russian: за́ново (zánovo) — Very recently
- Russian: по-но́вому (po-nóvomu) — Very recently
- Russian: неда́вно (nedávno) — Very recently
- Lower Sorbian: nowo — Very recently
- Spanish: nuevamente — Very recently
- Spanish: recién — Very recently
- Swedish: nyligen — Very recently
- Swedish: ny- — Very recently
- Telugu: కొత్తగా (kottagā) — Very recently
Real reading context