beginner

nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//bɪˈɡɪnə//
United States//bəˈɡɪnɚ//

Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.

noun

1
Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.
2
Someone who sets something in motion.
The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.
3
An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
On the stage, the beginners for the first piece had taken their places — the chorus were there, scared but determined, and in the wings waited Harlequin, in the person of Charles Lyall […]

Etymology

From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin + -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Low German begünner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”, literally “new-beginner”).

Forms

plural: beginners

beggar · A person who begs.begging · The act of one who begs.begin · To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

beginner · Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.

beginning · The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of…begun · Having began.Begun · A surname.

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