Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who has only recently arrived.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who has lately come.
Wiktionary
- n. One who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.
- n. A new participant in some activity; a neophyte.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who has lately come.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a recent arrival
- n. any new participant in some activity
Etymologies
- From new- + comer. Compare Old English nīwcumen ("new comer, neophyte, novice"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This and the fact the newcomer is then in more of a comfort zone than the old OI, where you were flung in amongst and into an OI with varied levels of support for your new experience.”
“So what's shocking to the newcomer is the amount of coasting.”
“The first impact upon the newcomer is apt to be discouraging, for he is apt to be overwhelmned by the magnitude of poverty, misery and degradation, and not be aware of the magnitude of the effort which India today is making to meet her problems.”
“Now, one of the first points which strike the newcomer is the conservatism of Canada.”
“The newcomer is third-round draft pick Chase Coffman.”
“If a newcomer is looking for a perpetual vacation, they are not going to find it.”
“They found their target in Marcelo Lucero, a serious-minded, 37-year-old newcomer from a bad encampment in Ecuador who had lived in a United States for sixteen years, mostly in Patchogue, as well as worked in a dry cleaning store, sending assets home to await his mother, a cancer survivor.”
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“At last the newcomer is stopped by a woman, who is dressed in the same style with dark, shoulder-length hair and a piercing on her lower lip.”
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“One such newcomer is Japanese investment bank Nomura Holdings Inc. 's Chi-X, which has taken about 10% of the trade in blue-chip stocks in recent months, although it's difficult to say if that isn't also because the pool of trades is getting larger.”
“The late Mary Wickes would not be pleased to find herself described as a newcomer when she accepted the role of Miss Preen in The Man Who Came to Dinner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘newcomer’.
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Politically Correct Terms
It's fun to find the politically incorrect equivalents. To see more (lesser common but still funny ones) check http://www.bored.com/pcphrases/
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
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