A young or new scholar or student, a disciple; a beginner, a novice; a person who is unpractised or inexperienced (usually with implication of…

A new or recent arrival, a newcomer; a novice. Obsolete.

An inexperienced person; a person who is new to the circumstances in which he or she is placed; a beginner, a learner.

A beginner, an initiator. Also: a source, an origin.

spec. One beginning to learn; a novice, a tyro.

By extension: One who is only learning the rudiments; an unskilled novice, a tyro.

figurative. = apprentice, n. 3. Obsolete.

figurative. One who is a ‘child’, or very young beginner, in some department.

A novice, an inexperienced person; a person who is new to an occupation or position, a newcomer.

A person who joins, or gains admission to, a group, organization, or institution. Now: spec. a trainee member of the Faculty of Advocates, the legal…

A person being newly introduced to something; an initiate. Also with in. Obsolete.

A raw or inexperienced person; a novice, a beginner. Obsolete.

One who is a tiro or unskilled in (a subject).

A newcomer.

A novice, a beginner.

A beginner; = inceptor, n. Obsolete.

gen. A junior; an inferior, an underling; a novice. Obsolete.

An elementary student; a novice; also figurative. Also: an elementary teacher. Cf. abecedarian, n. Obsolete.

A person who is new to a subject or activity; a beginner, a novice.

A person who is learning the alphabet or who is engaged in elementary education; spec. (U.S.) a member of the youngest group of children in a school…

transferred. An inexperienced person, a novice. Obsolete.

An inexperienced person; a novice. Obsolete.

An elementary teacher. Also: an elementary student, a novice. Cf. abecedary, n.2 Obsolete. rare.

attributive as in breeching boy, breeching-scholar, a young scholar still subject to the birch, hence figurative a novice. (Cf. also whipping-boy, n.)

A beginner or learner in anything; one who is learning or who has mastered the rudiments only of any branch of knowledge; a novice.

A person who is learning the alphabet or who is engaged in elementary education; one who is inexperienced in a particular subject; a novice, a…

A beginner, a novice. Obsolete.

absol. (with the).

Applied contemptuously to a person.

figurative. One imperfectly instructed, or as yet inexpert (in something).

Hence stager simply, and with other adjectives, as cunning, sly. Also (rarely): young stager, a person of small experience, a beginner.

A raw, inexperienced person, esp. a novice in a trade. Also: a recent immigrant. Cf. greener, n.2

(more fully battledore-book): A horn-book; so called from its usual shape. Hence battledore boy, an abecedarian. Obsolete or dialect.

A young adult, esp. a young man; (in early use sometimes) spec. a lively or vigorous young man. Also: an inexperienced person; a novice.

= tiro, n.

gen. A beginner, a novice; a person who is new to something.

Military. A new member of a group or supporter of a cause; a new employee, a beginner, an initiate.

A European newly arrived in India, and unaccustomed to Indian ways and peculiarities; a novice, new-comer, greenhorn.

A person who has been initiated: see initiate, v. 2. Hence, A beginner, a novice.

(A generic name for) a new recruit; a novice. Cf. Johnny-come-lately, n. 1 Johnny Raw, n. 2. Now rare (chiefly Nautical).

Nautical and Military. (A generic name for) a new recruit; a novice.

= griffin, n.2

U.S. colloquial (frequently derogatory). A newly entered cadet at a military or naval academy; a freshman. Cf. pleb, n. 2.

Originally and chiefly Nautical. (A generic name for) a new recruit; a novice. Cf. Johnny Newcome, n. 2 Johnny Raw, n. 2.

Australian and New Zealand. A novice, newcomer, or beginner; a person inexperienced in a particular occupation, activity, etc.

A raw youngster, greenhorn.

figurative; esp. A raw and inexperienced person, one just starting on his career.

A new recruit, esp. in an army or police force. Also in extended use: a novice in a particular field or profession.

One who has not advanced beyond the rudiments of his studies.

Originally U.S. A name given, originally in the ranching and mining regions of the western U.S., to a newly arrived immigrant, unused to the…

U.S. slang. A new arrival, a greenhorn.

A newcomer, a recently arrived person or (in extended use) thing; a novice. Frequently in new kid in town, new kid on the block.

In the mining district of Alaska or north-western Canada: a newly-arrived immigrant; a newcomer.

Australian colloquial. = jackeroo, n. Obsolete. rare.

In specific uses. Sometimes as an abbreviation of the fuller names treated at compounds 1. slang (originally Nautical). A novice; a new recruit. Cf…

= rookie, n.

A novice or inexperienced person; a new recruit.

In Hawaii: a stranger, a newcomer; a beginner, a novice.

One who is about to be initiated (in quot. 1969, one who initiates).

A newcomer, a novice (in certain spec. contexts: see quots.).

(One of) a group of entrants to the army, a school, a trade, etc.

figurative. An apprentice or beginner; spec. an apprentice pilot on a steamboat. Originally U.S.