Newbie

//ˈnjuːbi//

Synonyms for "newbie" (34 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (7)

Noun(6 words)

newcomer fresh meat beginner chainik entrant fledgeling

newcomer

Strong matches (10)

Noun(7 words)

fledgling fob freshman frosh greenhorn johnny-come-lately n00b

frosh midbie n00b

Related words (17)

Noun(12 words)

neofan neophyte newgen newling novice outsider puny rookie starter stranger tenderfoot tyro

newling novice oldbie rookie stranger

Related word relations

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10 relation types

More general

5 entries

beginner initiate novice tiro tyro

Antonyms

1 entries

knowbie

Synonyms

4 entries

newcomer newling novice rookie

coordinate

2 entries

midbie oldbie

derived

9 entries

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derived from

2 entries

baby newborn

etymologically related_to

5 entries

beginner freebie new new boy newie

has context

2 entries

internet slang

related to

5 entries

inexperienced new newcomer participant user

similar

2 entries

midbie oldbie

Translations

72 translations across 31 languages.

Arabic

3 entries

ابن امبارح noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
محدث noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
مُبْتَدِئ noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Belarusian

3 entries

нава́к noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
навачо́к noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
навічо́к noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Bulgarian

2 entries

аджами́я noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
нова́к noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

小白 noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
新手 noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
菜鳥 /菜鸟 noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Czech

1 entries

nováček noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Danish

1 entries

nybegynder noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Dutch

4 entries

beginneling noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
debutant noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
nieuweling noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
nieuwkomer noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Finnish

4 entries

aloittelija noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
keltanokka noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
mopo noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
nyyppä noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

French

4 entries

béotien noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
débutant noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
néophyte noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
profane noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Galician

2 entries

anovao noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
anová noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Georgian

3 entries

ახალბედა noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
გამოუცდელი noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
დამწყები noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

German

2 entries

Anfänger noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
Neuling noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Hindi

1 entries

नौसिखिया noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Hungarian

2 entries

kezdő noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
újonc noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Italian

3 entries

nabbo noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
niubbo noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
principiante noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Japanese

4 entries

ニュービー noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
今道心 noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
初心者 noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
若僧 noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Kazakh

1 entries

үйренбеген noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Korean

2 entries

뉴비 noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
초보자 noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Macedonian

1 entries

новајлија noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Norwegian

2 entries

newbie noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
nybegynner noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

ملازم noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Persian

1 entries

تازهکار noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Polish

3 entries

newbie noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
nowicjusz noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
nowicjuszka noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Portuguese

4 entries

iniciante noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
neófito noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
novato noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
principiante noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Russian

2 entries

но́венький noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
новичо́к noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Slovak

1 entries

nováčik noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Slovene

1 entries

novinec noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Spanish

3 entries

novato noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
principiante noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
usuario nuevo noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Swedish

2 entries

blåbär noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
nybörjare noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Turkish

2 entries

çaylak noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
çömez noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Ukrainian

3 entries

нова́к noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
нова́чка noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)
новачо́к noun (new (inexperienced) user or participant)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Oh my god, a newbie owned me!

Source: tatoeba (603803)

He's a newbie in Esperanto for sure.

Source: tatoeba (1253923)

I'm only a newbie.

Source: tatoeba (4988421)

"I'm not sure who Tom's married to." "But any Tatoeba newbie knows that: to Mary, of course!"

Source: tatoeba (6316452)

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