tyro
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
tyro (plural tyros)
- A beginner; a novice. [from 17th c.]
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man:
- 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.
- 1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525,
- Master of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish...
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 5:
- The text, though, was marvellously accurate for a tyro’s work; and I concluded that Akeley must have used a machine at some previous period—perhaps in college.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 171:
- Alliance with the equally youthful Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, tyro mathematician of genius and darling of the Parisian salons, led to the two men commissioning articles for the new venture straight away [...].
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man:
- See also Thesaurus:beginner
- Russian: новичо́к
- Spanish: principiante, novato
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