newcomernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈnjuːˌkʌm.ər/us/ˈnuːˌkʌm.ɚ/someone who has recently arrived in a place or recently become involved in an activity:
We're relative newcomers to the town.
The newcomer on the radio scene is a commercial station devoted to classical music.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inexperienced people and lack of experience
- beginner
- blind
- dilettante
- freshman
- functional illiterate
- greenhorn
- know
- layman
- laywoman
- lightweight
- neophyte
- not know the meaning of the word idiom
- rookie
- stranger
- the blind leading the blind idiom
- the uninitiated
- tyro
- upstart
- virgin
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