Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A beginner in learning something.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A beginner in learning anything; one who is employed in learning or who has mastered the rudiments only of any branch of knowledge; a novice.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone new to a field or activity
Etymologies
- From Latin tīro ("young soldier, recruit") (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin tȳrō, squire, variant of Latin tīrō, recruit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Rochas, which I had read in tyro fashion in other and busier days,”
“Professionally, if not artistically speaking, Doré passed straight from child to man; in one sense of the word he had no boyhood, the term tyro remained inapplicable.”
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
“You ain't exactly what they call a tyro, are you?" says the bland-faced man; "but I guess you've missed the mark this shot.”
“How does "tyro" apply to Milt Kahl at the point in time of that story?”
“Apparently from the looks of that watercolor Art Riley was no "tyro" any more than your dad was, Steve!”
“Wright, whose courtesy and kindliness, the courtesy and kindliness from a veteran to a tyro which is so encouraging to the tyro, have been beyond any expression of thanks which I can phrase.”
“But it's a movie dominated by Orson Welles - "tyro" and "enfant terrible" of the American theater.”
“Tipping competition, day twoThere may have been sighs of relief all round when JamesKing, the tyro who ran off with last week's prize, failed to show up yesterday.”
“The experience of our group ranges wide, from Everest vet to outdoor tyro.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I
“Others will rise to fill the role of headline tyro, particularly as the season enters its one-day phase this weekend.”
The Guardian: New kids on the block stake their claim for England Test place
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tyro’.
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1840 more...
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to memorize
words i need to memorize
aberrant, abscond, advocate, aggrandize, amalgamate, ambiguous, ambrosial, anomalous, antediluvian, antipathy, arbitrate, assuage and 163 more...
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GRE
pejorative, austere, unconscionable, lissome, edify, winsome, axiom, malinger, abjure, deleterious, contumacious, peregrinate and 152 more...
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My preparation
for GRE ofcourse
exonerate, incipient, disparate, morbid, engross, ebullient, predilection, propensity, allure, qualms, chastise, perpetuate and 111 more...
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princeton review
jubilance, obtrusive, maladjusted, prodigious, incredulous, stolidity, inured, stoicism, sidereal, boisterous, etiolated, circumscribed and 90 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ...
This is just a list of interesting words from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. (There was a different, magical list about the book, but it seems to have vanished into th...
golem, Prague, Lithuania, Tracy Bacon, homunculus, tyro, Professor Perciva...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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1st cut
abeyance, abscission, abyss, accretion, acidulous, adulterate, adumbrate, aerie, ameliorate, anachoronistic, analgesia, anodyne and 315 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tyro.
gliph This is what all the cool kids use in place of noob these days. Aug 24, 2008
seanahan "You couldn't sit around in some art director's waiting room with a brand-new-looking portfolio. Everyone would know you were a tyro."
"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", Michael Chabon, p87 Aug 10, 2007