Newcomer

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Newcomer \New"com`er\, n.
     One who has lately come.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  newcomer
       n 1: any new participant in some activity [syn: {fledgling}, {fledgeling},
             {starter}, {neophyte}, {freshman}, {newbie}, {entrant}]
       2: a recent arrival; "he's a newcomer to Boston"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "newcomer":
     abecedarian, alien, alphabetarian, amateur, apprentice, arrival,
     arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen,
     colonist, colt, comer, deb, debutant, emigrant, entrant, fledgling,
     foreigner, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus,
     immigrant, in-migrant, incomer, inductee, infant, initiate,
     intruder, learner, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy,
     novice, novitiate, novus homo, outlander, outsider, parvenu,
     postulant, probationer, probationist, proselyte, raw recruit,
     recruit, rookie, settler, squatter, stowaway, stranger, tenderfoot,
     trainee, tyro, upstart, visitant, visitor