beginners

Noun

beginner (plural beginners)

1. Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
   • I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.
2. Someone who sets something in motion.
   • The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.
3. 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