beginner
/bɪˈɡɪnə//bəˈɡɪnɚ/
beginner noun: someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
Noun
beginner (plural beginners)
- Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
- I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.
- Someone who sets something in motion.
- The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.
- This method, it is thought, stands a very good chance of becoming legalized in Maryland, the State which has some fame for being a beginner of things. Maryland received the first telegraphic message in the world; it had the first electric railway in the world, and formed the first steam railway...1906 September 8, “Tempering Justice in America; Making it Cruel Abroad: What is being Done in Many Lands to Cure the Criminal”, in The Sun, volume 30, number 205, St. John, New Brunswick, page 13
- An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
- On the stage, the beginners for the first piece had taken their places — the chorus were there, scared but determined, and in the wings waited Harlequin, in the person of Charles Lyall […]1949, Walter Macqueen-Pope, Gaiety: Theatre of Enchantment, page 60
beginner meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
beginner in Hindi
- someone who just recently started
- नौसिखिया nausikhiyā
beginner in Tamil
- தொடக்கத்தர், புதிதாகப் பயில்பவர், கற்றுக்குட்டி, தொடங்குபவர்
beginner in Urdu
- someone who just recently started
- مُبْتَدی mubtadī
beginner in Bengali
- someone who just recently started
- নবিস nobiś
More languagesFewer languages
- beginner in Telugu
- అనుభవశూన్యుడు, ప్రారంభికుడు
- beginner in Malayalam
- ആരംഭിക്കുന്നവൻ, തുടക്കക്കാരൻ, പ്രാരംഭകൻ, കന്നിക്കാരൻ
- beginner in Kannada
- ಆರಂಭಿಗ, ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸುವವನು, ಮೊದಲು ಮಾಡುವವನು, ಕಲಿಯಲು ಶುರುಮಾಡಿರುವವನು
- beginner in Gujarati
- શિખાઉ માણસ
- beginner in Nepali
- नयाँ nayā̃
- beginner in Tagalog
- singki
- beginner in Arabic
- مُبْتَدِئ mubtadiʔ, مُبْتَدِئَة mubtadiʔa
- beginner in Indonesian
- pemula
- beginner in Thai
- มือใหม่ mʉʉ-mài
- beginner in Vietnamese
- người bắt đầu, người mới học
Examples of beginner in a sentence
- Why don't you try getting your feet wet on the beginner slopes.
- This beginners' course only scratches the surface of the subject.
- Long-billed curlews, black-necked stilts, and American avocets are large, gorgeous "gateway" shorbs that beginners can easily identify.
Synonyms of beginner
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Antonyms
6 more antonymsFewer antonyms
- oldtimer
- skilled person
- specialist
- trouper
- veteran
- oldbie
Forms of beginner
| plural | beginners |
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Origin of beginner
From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin + -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Low German begünner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”, literally “new-beginner”).
Words formed from beginner
Phrases with beginner
Questions about beginner
- What does beginner mean?
- Beginner means someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
- What is beginner in Hindi?
- Beginner in Hindi is नौसिखिया (nausikhiyā). See Beginner meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is beginner?
- Beginner is a noun.
- How do you pronounce beginner?
- Beginner is pronounced /bɪˈɡɪnə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of beginner?
- The plural of beginner is beginners.
Words near beginner in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: beginner (page history and authors); beginner (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beginner (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); beginner (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); beginner (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beginner (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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