English Explanatory Dictionary

New English

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Meanings

name
  1. The form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.
noun
  1. A variety of English that has come into being in a region where English was a former colonial language or is a foreign language.
  2. New Englanders.
  3. English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries, as distinguished from previous Anglo-Norman invaders (the Old English).
adj
  1. Of or pertaining to New England.
  2. Of or pertaining to English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Word forms

New English New Englishes more New English most New English

Synonyms

Modern English World English

Related words

Classical English Middle English [ME] Medieval English Elizabethan English Early New English Late Modern English [LModE] New English [NE] Old English Standard English [StE] New Englishman New Englishwoman
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