beginner
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
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Definition of beginner
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
“I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.”
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noun
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Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
“I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.”
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Someone who sets something in motion.
“The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.”
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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 […]”
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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”).
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