FRESH START

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fresh start mean? 

• FRESH START (noun)
  The noun FRESH START has 1 sense:

1. an opportunity to start over without prejudice

  Familiarity information: FRESH START used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRESH START (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An opportunity to start over without prejudice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

clean slate; fresh start; tabula rasa

Hypernyms ("fresh start" is a kind of...):

chance; opportunity (a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances)

 Context examples 

Aunt March saw that she had begun wrong, and after a little pause, made a fresh start, saying as mildly as she could, Now, Meg, my dear, be reasonable and take my advice.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I believe we forgot everything except, of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In desperation, all but ready to surrender, to make a truce with fate until he could get a fresh start, he took the civil service examinations for the Railway Mail.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He floundered for a fresh start.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)