Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Just arrived; lately come.
- noun A stranger newly arrived; a newcomer.
- noun The time when any fruit comes in season.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Recently come.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
stranger newly arrived; anew-comer . - noun dialectal The time at which any fruit comes into season.
- adjective Just arrived; lately come.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The newcome Reds took all the muskets away from the gun-toters, and then led them off into the woods.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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My name is Katherine, and I'm a newcome-lurker to your blog.
Vacation game 2007
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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.
Weekend Herb Blogging Year in Review: Weeks 1-10 Kalyn Denny 2006
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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 2003
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She was a queen newcome to her throne and the crown was dangerously unsteady on her head.
The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996
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She was a queen newcome to her throne and the crown was dangerously unsteady on her head.
The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996
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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 T. C. DeLeon
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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.
Chimney-Pot Papers Fritz August Gottfried Endell 1906
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But, after all, who is so proud of newcome titles as the Superintendent of the
Sally of Missouri 1905
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So says I to mesilf: 'I will throw this newcome, whoiver he is, off his guard, be callin' him be a sthrange name! '
Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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