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English Dictionary: neo by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
neo
adj
  1. (used as a combining form) recent or new; "`neo' is a combining form in words like `neocolonialism'"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neo- \Ne"o-\ [Gr. [?] youthful, new. See {New}.]
      A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry
      designating specifically that variety of metameric
      hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been
      recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in
      connected directly with four other carbon atoms; --
      contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the
      neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.
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