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be·gin·ner

(bĭ-gĭn′ər)

1. One that begins.

2. One who is just starting to learn or do something; a novice.

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beginner

(bɪˈɡɪnə)

a person who has just started to do or learn something; novice

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

be•gin•ner

(bɪˈgɪn ər)

n.

1. a person or thing that begins.

2. a person who has just begun to learn something; novice.

[1350–1400]

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Noun	1.	beginner - someone new to a field or activity initiate, tiro, tyro, novice unskilled person - a person who lacks technical training abecedarian - a novice learning the rudiments of some subject apprentice, prentice, learner - works for an expert to learn a trade cub, greenhorn, rookie - an awkward and inexperienced youth landlubber, landsman, lubber - an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage fledgeling, fledgling, newbie, newcomer, entrant, freshman, neophyte, starter - any new participant in some activity tenderfoot - an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) trainee - someone who is being trained
	2.	beginner - a person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country" founder, founding father, father cofounder - one of a group of founders coloniser, colonizer - someone who helps to found a colony foundress - a woman founder conceiver, mastermind, originator - someone who creates new things

beginner

noun novice, student, pupil, convert, recruit, amateur, initiate, newcomer, starter, trainee, apprentice, cub, fledgling, learner, freshman, neophyte, tyro, probationer, greenhorn (informal), novitiate, newbie (slang), tenderfoot, proselyte I am a complete beginner to bird-keeping.
authority, professional, expert, master, pro (informal), veteran, boffin (Brit. informal), old hand, old-timer, trouper, old stager, fundi (S. African), past master or past mistress

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

beginner

noun

One who is just starting to learn or do something:

abecedarian, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, initiate, neophyte, novice, novitiate, tenderfoot, tyro.

Slang: rookie.

Translations

مُبْتَدِئ

začátečník

begynder

Anfänger

αρχάριος πρωτάρης

principiante iniciado

algajaalustaja

aloittelijaavaajavasta-alkajaalkuunpanijaaloittaja

débutant

početnik

byrjandi

principiante esordiente

初心者

초보자

beginner starter

nybegynner begynner

początkujący

iniciante principiante

новенький новичок

začetnik

nybörjare

ผู้เริ่มใหม่

yeni başlayan

người mới học

初学者

beginner

[bɪˈgɪnəʳ] N → principiante mf
it's just beginner's luck → es la suerte del principiante

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

beginner

[bɪˈgɪnə^r] n → débutant(e) m/f
I'm just a beginner → Je ne suis qu'un débutant.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

beginner

n → Anfänger(in) m(f); beginner’s luck → Anfängerglück nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

beginner

[bɪˈgɪnəʳ] n → principiante m/f
it's just beginner's luck → è la solita fortuna del principiante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

begin

(biˈgin) – present participle beˈginning: past tense began (biˈgan) : past participle begun (biˈgan) – verb

to come or bring, into being, to start. He began to talk; The meeting began early.

beˈginning noun

beˈginner noun

someone who is just learning how to do something. `Does he paint well?' `He's not bad for a beginner'.

to begin with

1. at first. I didn't like him to begin with, but now he's one of my best friends.

2. firstly. There are many reasons why I don't like her – to begin with, she doesn't tell the truth.

beginner

→ مُبْتَدِئ začátečník begynder Anfänger αρχάριος principiante aloittelija débutant početnik principiante 初心者 초보자 beginner nybegynner początkujący iniciante, principiante новичок nybörjare ผู้เริ่มใหม่ yeni başlayan người mới học 初学者

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

beginner

n. principiante, novicio-a; autor-a, iniciador-a.

Where are the beginners' slopes? → Hvor er begynderløjperne → Wo sind die Hänge für Anfänger? → Gdje su staze za početnike? → Waar zijn de beginnershellingen? → Hvor er nybegynnerbakkene? → Var ligger nybörjarbackarna? → Acemilerin kayak alanı neresi? → 初级者滑雪道在哪儿？

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During my first year in Venice I met an ingenious priest, who had been a tutor in a patrician family, and who was willing to lead my faltering steps through the "Inferno." This part of the "Divine Comedy" I read with a beginner's carefulness, and with a rapture in its beauties, which I will whisper the reader do not appear in every line.

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The trouble with the beginner at the writing game is the long, dry spells, when there is never an editor's cheque and everything pawnable is pawned.

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As a matter of fact, "Thus Spake Zarathustra", though it is unquestionably Nietzsche's opus magnum, is by no means the first of Nietzsche's works that the beginner ought to undertake to read.

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'Pretty well, I think, for a beginner,' remarked Mr.

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This is no story about the young beginner's struggles in London.

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Here, tossed about by the sea, the beginner feels about as cosy as he would standing on a bull's horns.

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The king winced under this accidental home-shot, but kept still; he was learning his part; and he was playing it well, too, for a pretty dull beginner. I struck up a diversion.

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She opened one that had obviously been often turned over, and read a portion in the drawling tone of a beginner; then laughed, and threw it from her.

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You can tell at a glance the difference between the old hand and the novice; between the case-hardened man who has been used to shift and struggle for years and the poor devil of a beginner striving to hide his misery, and in a constant agony of fear lest he should be found out.

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I've been rather lucky haven't I, for a beginner? I found a good trainer, and I had second call on Cannon, who's riding him.

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As a beginner, and especially to a member of the family, I suppose your terms will be moderate.

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"Yes," said Dorothy, "you do very well, for a beginner."

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