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adjective
- 1. completely new: "Graham's uniform was brand new"
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B1. completely new, especially not yet used: How can he afford to buy himself a brand new car? Her coat looked as if it was brand new. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. not owned or used before. new New cars tend to lose a lot of their value in the first year. brand new The dress is brand new - still has the sales tags on it!
The meaning of BRAND-NEW is conspicuously new and unused; also : recently introduced. How to use brand-new in a sentence.
Definition of 'brand-new' Word Frequency. brand-new. adjective B1. A brand-new object is completely new. Yesterday he went off to buy himself a brand-new car. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. British English pronunciation. American English pronunciation. Collins. Apps. English Quiz. Confusables.
Brand-new has been used to describe completely new and unused things since the late 16th century. Brand in the word goes back to Old English and referred to a piece of burning wood.
Brand-new definition: entirely new.. See examples of BRAND-NEW used in a sentence.
Definition of brand new adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
brand new definition: completely new. Learn more.
adjective. conspicuously new. “shiny brand-new shoes”. synonyms: bran-new, spic-and-span, spick-and-span. new. not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered. Pronunciation. US.
brand-new meaning, definition, what is brand-new: new and not yet used: Learn more.
Origin of Brand-new. Most likely from brand in the sense of firebrand (a term often used for the heated glowing end of forged tool); implying something that is newly forged (first citation 1570), or less likely from brand as in a branding iron.
