neophyte

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  1. noun A recent convert to a belief; a proselyte.
  2. noun A beginner or novice: a neophyte at politics.
  3. noun Roman Catholic Church A newly ordained priest.
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  • The biggest problem for AdWords advertisers is a budget so small that it doesn't make sense to hire an expert to manage it - because AdWords is not easy for the neophyte, and they end up wasting that small budget and not getting results. —  SEMpdx Blog
  • These systems will be available in the market by the end of this month and is a perfect gifting item for a neophyte or an experienced gardener. —  Ecofriend
  • Like when you compare yourself to a master at something (like blacksmithing or medical science research or foreign policy) and you know you are just a neophyte, and you know that they know so much more than you that they've forgotten more than you've EVER learned. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • McCain ---- Picks a noname neophyte and puts the whole nation at risk —  Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
  • I have a sense that regardless of whether the designer is experienced or a neophyte, has an artificially constrained role, or has their perspective limited in some other way, design success is based as much around the design environment itself as the people who populate it. —  Vol. 2: design-management.de
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neophyte:   neophytes
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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin neophytus, from Greek neophutos : neo-, neo- + -phutos, planted (from phuein, to bring forth; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French néophyte = Spanish neófito = Portuguese neophyto = Italian neofito, from Latin neophytus (in inscriptions also neofitus), from Greek νεόφυτος, newly planted, a new convert, from νέος, new, + φυτός, verbal adjective of φν/ειν, produce, bring forth, φύεσθαι, grow, come into being.
 

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