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fresh

Pronunciation: /fɹɛʃ/

The English word “fresh” has 20 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Newly produced or obtained; recent.
  2. Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
  3. (of plant material) Still green and not dried.
  4. Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
  5. Without salt; not saline.
  6. Rested; not tired or fatigued.
  7. In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
  8. Youthful; florid.
  9. Good, fashionable.
  10. Tipsy; drunk.

adverb

  1. Recently; just recently; most recently.

noun

  1. A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
  2. A stream or spring of fresh water.
  3. The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

verb

  1. To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
  2. To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
  3. To become stronger.
  4. To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
  5. To update.
  6. To freshen up.

Etymology

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…

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