newer

UK/ˈnjuː.ə/US/ˈn(j)u.ɚ/

adjectiveA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,324 of 15,258mostly written

Newer means more recently made than something else. The newer of the two coats, the newer building at the far end.

It is the comparative of new, and it behaves exactly as short adjectives do in English, adding -er rather than taking more. Newer, newest. It carries no judgement on its own, which is worth noticing, since newer things are not automatically better and the word does not claim they are. In writing about technology it often appears alongside older to divide a field in two, as in newer models and older ones.

Definitions of newer

1adjectivenewerMore recently made or arrived than something else.A2+
“The newer flats are at the back of the estate.”

Where it comes from

Proto-Germanic
*niwizô — newer
Old English
nīwra
Middle English
newer
English, today
newer

From Middle English newer, newere, from Old English nīwra, from Proto-Germanic niwizô (“newer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic niwjaz (“new”), equivalent to new + er. Cognate with West Frisian nijere (“newer”), Dutch nieuwere (“newer”), German neuer (“newer”), Danish nyere (“newer”), Swedish nyare (“newer”), Icelandic nýrri (“newer”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Word Building

First appears in chapter 10 of A Man Called Ove.

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newer in the wild

Thereafter, the company stopped distributing the LimeWire software, and versions 5.5.11 and newer have been disabled using a backdoor installed by the company.
LimeWire
However, version 5.5.10 and all prior versions of LimeWire remain fully functional and cannot be disabled unless a user upgrades to one of the newer versions.
LimeWire
Shims can be used to support an old API in a newer environment, or a new API in an older environment.
Shim (computing)
In newer churches the sacristy is often in another location, such as near an entrance to the church.
Sacristy
Another WWE Cruiserweight Championship was created in 2016, and although both championships had shared the same name, the newer championship did not carry the lineage of the original.
WWE Cruiserweight Championship (1996–2007)

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