Synonyms of the word

neophyte

• n. A beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.
• n. A novice (recent convert), a new convert or proselyte, a new monk.
• n. (Christianity) A name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to those…
• n. (biology) A plant species recently introduced to an area (in contrast to archaeophyte, a long-established…

beginner

• n. Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
• n. Someone who sets (or puts) something in motion.

catechumen

• n. A convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism; a young Christian preparing for confirmation.

educatee

• n. Someone who is being educated.

entrant

• n. A participant who enters something, such as a contest.
• n. A newcomer.

fledgeling

• n. Alternative spelling of fledgling.

fledgling

• adj. Untried or inexperienced.
• adj. Emergent or Rising.
• n. A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
• n. An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.
• n. (figuratively) An immature, naïve and/or inexperienced person.

flora

• n. plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. a book describing the plants of a country etc.
• n. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora.

freshman

• n. (obsolete) A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge.
• n. (US) A person of either sex entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth…

initiate

• adj. (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
• adj. (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
• n. A new member of an organization.
• n. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
• v. (transitive) To begin; to start.
• v. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
• v. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
• v. (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

newbie

• n. (slang) A newcomer, someone new to something.
• n. (Internet) A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity)…
• n. (slang) Anything recently introduced into a setting, especially something that replaces an older version.

newcomer

• n. One who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.
• n. A new participant in some activity; a neophyte.

novice

• n. A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
• n. (religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.

plant

• n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically…
• n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land…
• n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have…
• n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including…
• n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
• n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
• n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
• n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
• n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the…
• n. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
• n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
• n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
• n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
• n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
• n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
• v. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
• v. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
• v. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
• v. To place in the ground.
• v. To furnish or supply with plants.
• v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
• v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
• v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
• v. To set up; to install; to instate.

pupil

• n. (law, obsolete) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.
• n. A learner under the supervision of a teacher or professor.
• n. (anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the…

starter

• n. Someone who starts something.
• n. Something that starts something.
• n. The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
• n. (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
• n. A dog that rouses game.

student

• n. A person who studies or learns about a particular academic subject.
• n. (figuratively) A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not.
• n. A person enrolled at a university.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) A schoolchild.

tiro

• n. A newly recruited soldier.
• n. A novice without practical experience.

tyro

• n. A beginner; a novice.