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NEWCOMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does newcomer mean? 

NEWCOMER (noun)
  The noun NEWCOMER has 2 senses:

1. any new participant in some activityplay

2. a recent arrivalplay

  Familiarity information: NEWCOMER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEWCOMER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any new participant in some activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

entrant; fledgeling; fledgling; freshman; neophyte; newbie; newcomer; starter

Hypernyms ("newcomer" is a kind of...):

beginner; initiate; novice; tiro; tyro (someone new to a field or activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newcomer"):

enlistee; recruit (any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces))


Sense 2

Meaning:

A recent arrival

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he's a newcomer to Boston

Hypernyms ("newcomer" is a kind of...):

arrival; arriver; comer (someone who arrives (or has arrived))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newcomer"):

malahini (a newcomer to Hawaii)


 Context examples 


The other dog made no advances, nor received any; also, he did not attempt to steal from the newcomers.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The newcomer turned upon the crowd.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He saw the girl leave her chair and trip swiftly across the floor to the newcomer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But just then the dog, squirming and rubbing against the newcomer's legs, opened his mouth and barked.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Mars is the newcomer, for this planet of energy and drive first appeared in Capricorn on February 16 and is set to stay through March 30.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And Fanny, what was she doing and thinking all this while? and what was her opinion of the newcomers?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A young assistant informed us that Mr. Harding would be absent until afternoon, and that he was himself a newcomer, who could give us no information.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg jumped up, looking both proud and shy, but 'that man', as Jo called him, actually laughed and said coolly, as he kissed the astonished newcomer, "Sister Jo, congratulate us!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in general, you know, they visit no newcomers.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)



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