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Tyro

//ˈtaɪɹoʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A beginner; a novice.

    "I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure."

  2. 2
    someone new to a field or activity wordnet

Etymology

From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”). In Medieval Latin the term was often spelt as tyro whence the English spelling is derived.

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