Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Just arrived; lately come.
- n. A stranger newly arrived; a newcomer.
- n. The time when any fruit comes in season.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Recently come.
Examples
“The newcome Reds took all the muskets away from the gun-toters, and then led them off into the woods.”
“My name is Katherine, and I'm a newcome-lurker to your blog.”
“Paz has an interesting sounding salad with arugula, and another newcome, Pille from Nami Nami has a great sounding gratin with arugula, feta, and tomatoes.”
“The eighth of Ianuary, foure of the said 5. newcome shippes (God send them a prosperous voyage) set saile toward the Moluccas.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“She was a queen newcome to her throne and the crown was dangerously unsteady on her head.”
“For swift, indeed, were the newcome saints to preach the Evangel of alphabet; and negro schools seemed to have been smuggled in by every army ambulance, so numerously did they spring up in the captured”
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
“And mingled with all the hours of happiness of those times there were hours, also, of emptiness and loneliness -- hours when, newcome to my surroundings, for fear of rebuff I walked alone.”
“But, after all, who is so proud of newcome titles as the Superintendent of the”
“So says I to mesilf: 'I will throw this newcome, whoiver he is, off his guard, be callin' him be a sthrange name! ”
“The eighth of Ianuary, foure of the said 5. newcome shippes (God send them”
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