Synonyms of the word

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.

appetiser

• n. Alternative spelling of appetizer.

appetizer

• n. (usually in the plural) A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.

beginner

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

contestant

• n. A participant in a contest.

course

• n. A sequence of events.
• n. A path that something or someone moves along.
• n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
• n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
• n. A row or file of objects.
• n. (music) A string on a lute.
• n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
• v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
• v. To run through or over.
• v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
• v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
• adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

crank

• adj. (slang) strange, weird, odd.
• adj. sick; unwell; infirm.
• adj. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
• adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
• n. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft…
• n. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
• n. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• n. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
• n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
• n. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave…
• n. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
• n. (US, slang) methamphetamine.
• n. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• n. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
• n. (slang) penis.
• v. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
• v. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
• v. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

culture

• n. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
• n. The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
• n. (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium;…
• n. (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human…
• n. The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
• n. (botany) Cultivation.
• n. (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
• n. (cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such…
• v. (transitive) To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
• v. (transitive) To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).

dispatcher

• n. agent noun of dispatch; one who dispatches.
• n. In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.
• n. (computing) A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to…

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.

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.

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…

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.

official

• adj. Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
• adj. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue…
• adj. Approved by authority; authorized.
• adj. sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
• adj. Discharging an office or function.
• adj. Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
• adj. Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the…
• adj. True, real, beyond doubt.
• n. An office holder invested with powers and authorities.
• n. A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.

tiro

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

tyro

• n. A beginner; a novice.