NEWFOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does newfound mean? 

• NEWFOUND (adjective)
  The adjective NEWFOUND has 1 sense:

1. newly discovered

  Familiarity information: NEWFOUND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWFOUND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Newly discovered

Context example:

Hudson pointed his ship down the coast of the newfound sea

Similar:

new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)

 Context examples 

The newfound object, termed WISEA J114724.10-204021.3, or just WISEA 1147 for short, is estimated to be between roughly five to 10 times the mass of Jupiter.

(Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars, NASA)

A newfound asteroid will safely pass Earth on June 8 from a distance of about 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers), more than three times farther away than our moon.

(Asteroid discovered by NASA to pass Earth safely, NASA)

The newfound planet, K2-33b, is a bit larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days.

(NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star, NASA)

The newfound coldest brown dwarf is named WISE J085510.83-071442.5.

(A cold, close neighbor of the Sun, NASA)

Most of the newfound water ice lies in the shadows of craters near the poles, where the warmest temperatures never reach above minus 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)

The size and explosive growth rate of the newfound hole, however, surprised them.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)