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ˈnew-ˌcomer
Also new comer, newcomer.
[f. new and comer, after new-come ppl. a.]
One who has newly come to a place; a new arrival. Also used of things.
1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (New Shaks. Soc.) 31 For other new commers, I leaue them to the mercie of these painted monsters. 1637Sir H. Blount Voy. Levant 61 A new Commer aprehends them with a judgement fresh and sincere. 1717Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 519 To produce a good effect on the eye of a new-comer. 1783Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 259 Several of them strongly suspected to be new-comers. 1832H. Martineau Weal & Woe i. 8 He..went to new comers in preference to old neighbours. 1882Besant Revolt of Man xii. (1883) 288 Drill was renewed, and the new-comers taught the first elements of marching. 1886W. B. Yeats Mosada iii. 8 Yonder a leaf Of apple blossom circles in the gloom, Floating from yon barred window. New-comer, Thou'rt welcome. 1930New Statesman 27 Dec. 357/2 The Gum-trees or Eucalypts are new⁓comers to California. 1966B.B.C. Handbk. 23 A new⁓comer to many schools is ‘radio-vision’.
So † new-coming. Obs. rare—1.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 33 It were a wrecched schame þat a newe comynge [L. novus advena] schulde putte olde londesmen out of here place. |