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nouveau

  • /nuːˈvəʊ/ UK
  • /nuːˈvoʊ/ US

Where it comes from

Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828. Doublet of novel.

adjective

  1. not comparable New, fashionable.

noun nouveaus · nouveaux

  1. A wine released in the same year that the grapes were harvested to make it. Nouveaus are wines to be drunk, not to be sipped.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: novel, new, fresh, emerging, again, riche, brunswick, ne, quebec, newest, renewed, recent, modern, contemporary, up-to-date, current

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nouveau. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/nouveau

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@misc{nouveau_2026,
  title = {nouveau},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nouveau},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}