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Added 9 October 2026

fresh

/fɹɛʃ/ adjective

In Latin: recēns Wiktionary

adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about fresh at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Newly produced or obtained; recent.
He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
What a nice fresh breeze.
Rested; not tired or fatigued.

adverb

Recently; just recently; most recently.
We are fresh out of milk.

noun

A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
A stream or spring of fresh water.
The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

verb

To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
To become stronger.

Origin

From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective. Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk frisk (“fresh”), Swedish frisk (“well, fresh”), Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”).

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