Synonyms for beginner
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Novice
novice, tyro, neophyte, learner, apprentice, greenhorn US, rookie, newcomer, trainee, novitiate, recruit, probationer, initiate, pupil, catechumen, fledgling, colt, tenderfoot, abecedarian, probationist, alphabetarian, freshman dated
3. Founder
Definitions
- n. 1
Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.
- n. 2
Someone who sets something in motion.
The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.
- n. 3
An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
Related words
- Phrases
- beginner's license beginner's permit
- Is a kind of
- person
Forms
- Plural
- beginners → novices, tyros, neophytes, learners…
Example sentences
- novice I'm a novice at programming, but I learn quickly.
- learner That's a perfect game to torture a language-learner.
- tyro Tyro was married to Cretheus but loved Enipeus.
- stranger The girl that came yesterday was a stranger to me.
By length
- 4 letters
- colt1, tyro
- 5 letters
- pupil2
- 6 letters
- father2, rookie2, novice2, newbie2
- 7 letters
- founder2, amateur3, recruit2, learner2, trainee2
- 8 letters
- stranger2, freshman2, initiate4, newcomer3, neophyte3
- 9 letters
- fledgling2, incipient4, greenhorn, novitiate, commencer
- 10 letters
- apprentice3, tenderfoot, catechumen
- 11 letters
- probationer4, abecedarian
- 12 letters
- probationist
- 13 letters
- alphabetarian
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pupil2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- débutant
- Italiano
- principiante
- Español
- principiante
- Deutsch
- Anfänger