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New English

noun 3
adjective 2
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noun[in the plural]3

A variety of English that has come into being in a region where English was a former colonial language or is a foreign language.
(historical) English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries, as distinguished from previous Anglo-Norman invaders (the Old English).
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New Englanders.
- Any honest New Englander—a New Englander of the villages, I mean—will admit that the New English are singularly ungifted for social life and manners. — 1920

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(historical) Of or pertaining to English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- As a Catholic lawyer and land-owner with Gaelic connections, Barnewall represented everything repugnant to full extension of New English rule in Ireland. — 2002
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(historical) Of or pertaining to New England.
- Until and even after the American Revolution, the New English child was formed in the religious image of his Puritan ancestors. — 1974

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