newcomer

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
newcomer
    n 1: any new participant in some activity [syn: {newcomer},
         {fledgling}, {fledgeling}, {starter}, {neophyte},
         {freshman}, {newbie}, {entrant}]
    2: a recent arrival; "he's a newcomer to Boston"
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Newcomer \New"com`er\, n.
   One who has lately come.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "newcomer":
      abecedarian, alien, alphabetarian, amateur, apprentice, arrival,
      arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen,
      colonist, colt, comer, deb, debutant, emigrant, entrant, fledgling,
      foreigner, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus,
      immigrant, in-migrant, incomer, inductee, infant, initiate,
      intruder, learner, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy,
      novice, novitiate, novus homo, outlander, outsider, parvenu,
      postulant, probationer, probationist, proselyte, raw recruit,
      recruit, rookie, settler, squatter, stowaway, stranger, tenderfoot,
      trainee, tyro, upstart, visitant, visitor
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