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new-founded

new-founded adjective: recently founded.

Adjective

new-founded (not comparable)

  1. Recently founded.
    • In 1544, he was appointed joint tutor for the Latin tongue, with Sir Anthony Cooke, to prince Edward, and one of the canons in the new-founded college at Oxford, now Christ-church.1784, William Owen, William Johnston, A new and general biographical dictionary, page 299
    • On Asti's side there were ranged Cuneo and the other new-founded Commune of Mondovì.1912, Charles William Previté-Orton, The Early History of the House of Savoy (1000-1233), page 371

Examples of new-founded in a sentence

  • But it is difficult to believe that all of these new-founded, early Iron Age I settlements emanated from a single source, namely sheep-goat pastoralism.2001, Michael David Coogan, The Oxford History of the Biblical World, →ISBN, page 103:
  • In the new-founded Narnia, everything is 'bursting with life and growth.'2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, →ISBN:

Forms of new-founded

alternative formnewfounded

Questions about new-founded

What does new-founded mean?
New-founded means recently founded.
How do you use new-founded in a sentence?
But it is difficult to believe that all of these new-founded, early Iron Age I settlements emanated from a single source, namely sheep-goat pastoralism.
What part of speech is new-founded?
New-founded is an adjective.

Words near new-founded in the dictionary

  1. new-energy vehicle
  2. new-energy vehicles
  3. new-fangled
  4. new-fashioned
  5. new-found
  6. new-founded
  7. new-front
  8. new-fronting
  9. new-furnish
  10. new-generation
  11. new-ish

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