| New Deal |
the political and economic policies of the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, focusing primarily on helping the United States recover from the Great Depression. |
| New Delhi |
the capital of India. |
| newel |
a central supporting post to which the steps of a winding staircase are attached at one end. [2 definitions] |
| New England |
the six northeasternmost U.S. states; Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. |
| New English Bible |
a translation of the Bible into modern idiomatic English based upon ancient Greek and other sources, that was published between 1961 and 1970. |
| newfangled |
of a new type or fashion, sometimes objectionably so. |
| new-found |
newly discovered or established. |
| Newfoundland |
an island in the Atlantic Ocean that is part of the eastern Canadian province officially named Newfoundland and Labrador. [3 definitions] |
| Newfoundland and Labrador |
an eastern Canadian province that occupies the Atlantic coast northeast of Quebec, and an island east of Quebec. |
| Newfoundland dog |
a type of very large dog with a dense, usu. black coat. |
| Newgate |
a prison in London that was razed in 1902. |
| New Guinea |
a large East Indies island north of Australia, occupied by an Indonesian province and Papua New Guinea. [2 definitions] |
| new halfpenny |
the official name of the halfpenny currently minted in the United Kingdom. (See halfpenny.) |
| New Hampshire |
a New England state between Vermont and Maine. (abbr.: NH) [2 definitions] |
| New High German |
the High German language since the sixteenth century. |
| New Jersey |
an eastern U.S. state on the Atlantic coast between New York and Delaware. (abbr.: NJ) |
| new journalism |
(sometimes cap.) a style of reporting characterized by the reporter's subjective interpretations and the insertion of dramatized, fictional events, conversations, and the like. |
| New Left |
a radical political movement from the 1960s advocating revolutionary changes in the political, social, and economic structure of society, esp. U.S. society. |
| newly |
recently. [3 definitions] |
| newlywed |
one who has recently married. |
| new math |
a system of teaching mathematics based on set theory, used in many U.S. elementary and secondary schools since the middle of the twentieth century. |