New English
Short definition from Wiktionary
Proper noun
- The form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.
Noun
- A variety of English that has come into being in a region where English was a former colonial language or is a foreign language.
- New Englanders.
- English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries, as distinguished from previous Anglo-Norman invaders (the Old English).
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to New England.
- Of or pertaining to English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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