TYRO (tyros)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: tyros   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tyro mean? 

• TYRO (noun)
  The noun TYRO has 1 sense:

1. someone new to a field or activity

  Familiarity information: TYRO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYRO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone new to a field or activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beginner; initiate; novice; tiro; tyro

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

unskilled person (a person who lacks technical training)

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

abecedarian (a novice learning the rudiments of some subject)

apprentice; learner; prentice (works for an expert to learn a trade)

cub; greenhorn; rookie (an awkward and inexperienced youth)

landlubber; landsman; lubber (an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage)

entrant; fledgeling; fledgling; freshman; neophyte; newbie; newcomer; starter (any new participant in some activity)

tenderfoot (an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living))

trainee (someone who is being trained)

 Context examples 

Her trained ear detected the weaknesses and exaggerations, the overemphasis of the tyro, and she was instantly aware each time the sentence-rhythm tripped and faltered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy’s apprehensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

What characterized them was the clumsiness of too great strength—the clumsiness which the tyro betrays when he crushes butterflies with battering rams and hammers out vignettes with a war-club.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)