beginner
sustantivoatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//bɪˈɡɪnə//
- Estados Unidos//bəˈɡɪnɚ//
Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
sustantivo
- 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 […]
Etimología
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”).
Formas
- plural
- beginners
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.