Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
(used as a combining form) recent or new;
- Example: "`neo' is a combining form in words like `neocolonialism'"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Neo- \Ne"o-\ [Gr. ne`os 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 is
connected directly with four other carbon atoms; --
contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the
neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
neo
adj 1: (used as a combining form) recent or new; "`neo' is a
combining form in words like `neocolonialism'"