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New

proper nountop 1 000 in film dialogue

A surname transferred from the nickname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname transferred from the nickname.

    The surname, "New," appears on both Hampshire Co., Virginia and Pendleton Co., Kentucky records.

  2. 2

    Variant of New CollegeinformalEllipsis of New College, Oxford.

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the adjective new. * Also as an English surname, from a misdivision of Middle English atten ew (“at the yew”). * As a German and Jewish surname, Americanized from Neu. * As a Chinese surname, from a Romanization of 牛 (niú) (see Niu) and 梁 (liáng) (see Liang).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).