The form of the Persian language that is used today, first attested from the late ninth century. It is distinguished from its precursor Middle Persian by the use of the Arabic script and an extensive borrowing of vocabulary.

Of a ship: exceeding the maximum dimensions of a Panamax ship, but still conforming to the maximum dimensions laid down for the New Panama Canal.

A school of literary theory developed in the 1980s, aiming simultaneously to understand a work through its cultural context and to understand intellectual history through literature.

The politics associated with the New Deal, a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform.

(historical) All of the territory of North America north of New Spain, as claimed by Sir Francis Drake for England in 1579.

(historical) A nation in South America corresponding to present-day Colombia.

(historical) A colony of the Netherlands: A Dutch colonial province along the east coast of North America, capital New Amsterdam

(idiomatic) The current prevailing situation, when it has emerged recently, differs dramatically from the previous one and is expected to remain.

Alternative spelling of newborn

Alternative spelling of newborn