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NEWCOMER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any new participant in some activity

Synonyms:

entrant; fledgeling; fledgling; freshman; neophyte; newbie; newcomer; starter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("newcomer" is a kind of...):

beginner; initiate; novice; tiro; tyro (someone new to a field or activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newcomer"):

enlistee; recruit (any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A recent arrival

Example:

he's a newcomer to Boston

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("newcomer" is a kind of...):

arrival; arriver; comer (someone who arrives (or has arrived))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newcomer"):

malahini (a newcomer to Hawaii)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Between 23 and 25 million years ago, newcomers arrived in Africa — the first relatives of modern dogs, cats and hyenas — where they coexisted with hyaenodonts for millions of years.

(Fossil discovery in Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized carnivore, National Science Foundation)

Nor was this all, for the sound of several footsteps running came already to our ears, and as we looked back in their direction, a light tossing to and fro and still rapidly advancing showed that one of the newcomers carried a lantern.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They did not seem to know anything, these newcomers.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The men who came ashore from the steamers were newcomers.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The detective stared at the newcomer with blank amazement.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So busy was she with her card full of refractory figures that she did not observe a newcomer, who entered without stopping the vehicle, till a masculine voice said, Good morning, Miss March, and, looking up, she beheld one of Laurie's most elegant college friends.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Removing his utensils from the stove, so as to give the newcomers a chance to cook, he proceeded to take his meal from the top of his grub- box, himself sitting on his bed-roll.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

With the newcomers hopeless and forlorn, and the old team worn out by twenty-five hundred miles of continuous trail, the outlook was anything but bright.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

At that moment the newcomer's fist landed a smashing blow full in his face.

(White Fang, by Jack London)