fresh

CEFRA1

/fɹɛʃ/

adjective

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Recently made, obtained, or harvested; not old or spoiled.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    (of plant material) Still green and not dried.

Examples

  • It is still fresh in my memory.

  • Let's go out for some fresh air.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.

  2. Newly produced or obtained; recent.

  3. Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.

More examples

In context

  • Our new English teacher is fresh from college.

  • He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

  • I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective. Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk frisk (“fresh”), Swedish frisk (“well, fresh”), Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of...