Tyro

/ˈtaɪɹoʊ/ noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

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

Example

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"Tyro was married to Cretheus but loved Enipeus."

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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