Neophyte: alternatives and connections

One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.

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The goddess of flowers and spring.

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To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

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A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.

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A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledg…

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Same as Tyro.

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A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.

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To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spi…

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One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Ch…

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One who enters; a beginner.

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A young bird just fledged.

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novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.

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One who has lately come.

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One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.

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