fresh

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fresh/freʃ/

▶adjective

• 1 not previously known or used; new or different.

• 2 (of food) recently made or obtained; not tinned, frozen, or otherwise preserved.

• 3 full of energy and vigour.

  ■ (of a colour or a person's complexion) bright or healthy in appearance.

• 4 (of water) not salty.

• 5 (of the wind) cool and fairly strong.

  ■ pleasantly clean, invigorating, and cool: fresh air.

• 6 (fresh from/out of) newly come from; having just had (a particular experience): we were fresh out of art school.

• 7 attractively youthful and inexperienced.

• 8 informal presumptuous or impudent, especially sexually.

▶adverb newly; recently.

– phrases
be fresh out of informal have just run out of.

– derivatives
freshly adverb,
freshness noun.

– origin OE fersc ‘not salt, fit for drinking’, superseded in ME by forms from OFr. freis, fresche; both ult. of Gmc origin.