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for newcomer
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Newcomer \New"com`er\, n.
One who has lately come.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
newcomer
n 1: any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer,
fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte,
freshman, newbie, entrant]
2: a recent arrival; "he's a newcomer to Boston"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "newcomer":
abecedarian, alien, alphabetarian, amateur, apprentice, arrival,
arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen,
colonist, colt, comer, deb, debutant, emigrant, entrant, fledgling,
foreigner, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus,
immigrant, in-migrant, incomer, inductee, infant, initiate,
intruder, learner, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy,
novice, novitiate, novus homo, outlander, outsider, parvenu,
postulant, probationer, probationist, proselyte, raw recruit,
recruit, rookie, settler, squatter, stowaway, stranger, tenderfoot,
trainee, tyro, upstart, visitant, visitor
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