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Definition of Newcome
1. a. Recently come.
Definition of Newcome
1. Adjective. Just arrived; lately come. ¹
2. Noun. A stranger newly arrived; a new-comer. ¹
3. Noun. (dialectal) The time at which any fruit comes into season. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Newcome
1. recently arrived [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Newcome
Literary usage of Newcome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"CHAPTER LXVII newcome AND LIBERTY WE have said that the Baronet's lecture was
... The senate of the "King's Arms" was hostile to Sir Barnes newcome. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"During the above conspiracy for bribing or crushing the independence of a great
organ of British opinion, Miss Ethel newcome held her " My darling child, ..."
3. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"THACKERAY'S ETHEL newcome AND CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S JANE EYRE THERE are so many of
... It seems to me that in Ethel newcome the author has done his utmost to ..."
4. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"There was a close connection between the newcome family and Lord Charles ...
Henry newcome and his son Peter newcome, who later became headmaster himself, ..."
5. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1849)
"Dryden's lines well describe the situation into which newcome, ... Although after
August, 1662, newcome no longer occupied the pulpit of the Collegiate ..."
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