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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
newcomer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
other
▪ Wilson steadied the team at the back and was supported well by Lawrence and the other newcomer, Bain.
▪ Meanwhile, those same gossipers will have found yet some other newcomer about whom to enthuse.
political
▪ So Kimon's rivals, Pericles and Ephialtes, were not political newcomers in 462.
▪ Robert K.. Dornan by political newcomer Loretta Sanchez.
relative
▪ A relative newcomer to the news control booth is the remote coordinator.
▪ The detractors say they are relative newcomers who would have constituted a gamble.
▪ A relative newcomer to Wallingford, starting seven years ago.
▪ But having lived in a Louisiana prison for five years, he is a relative newcomer.
■ VERB
leave
▪ The Customs officer closed the door softly, almost reverently, leaving her and the newcomer alone.
▪ The Ohio bank does not leave its newcomers to sink or swim by themselves.
▪ In a sense, they did not leave the newcomers behind.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
comparative beginner/newcomer etc
▪ A word of advice - don't sit for hours at the knitting machine, particularly if you are a comparative beginner.
▪ The fishing and fish-processing industry in North Shields is a comparative newcomer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Also elected was council newcomer Mike Rowlinson.
▪ Although she's a newcomer to the sport, she's already very successful.
▪ I was fifty and a comparative newcomer to computers.
▪ Our team will include some familiar faces as well as a few newcomers.
▪ The inhabitants of these remote mountain villages tend to be very suspicious of newcomers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He used to run the Harvard program for newcomers in Congress, to introduce them to the legislative process.
▪ The newcomer mates as soon as females are in oestrus.
▪ The landlord, anxious to please, pushed glasses of hollands before the newcomers.
▪ The open-year problem also deters new capital, for it threatens to saddle newcomers too with unquantifiable losses from the past.
▪ There was even room for high-profile newcomers at the toy fair, such as software giant Microsoft.
▪ When the market turned sour on the wireless newcomers, the big bidders were stuck.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Newcomer

Newcomer \New"com`er\, n. One who has lately come.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
newcomer

"recent arrival," mid-15c., with agent noun ending from new-come (past participle adjective), c.1200, from Old English niwe cumen. Old English also used niwcumen as a noun meaning "newcomer, neophyte."

Wiktionary
newcomer

n. One who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.

WordNet
newcomer
  1. n. any new participant in some activity [syn: fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant]

  2. a recent arrival; "he's a newcomer to Boston"

Wikipedia
Newcomer

A newcomer is someone who has recently arrived or recently joined a group.

Newcomer may also refer to:

  • Newcomer (surname)
  • Newcomer (Lenape), chief of the western Lenape and founder of Newcomerstown, Ohio
  • Newcomer (Alien Nation), a fictional humanoid species in the television series and film Alien Nation
  • The Newcomers (TV series), British soap opera based on a family that moved home from London to a country town
  • the Novichok agent, Novichok meaning 'Newcomer' in Russian
Newcomer (surname)

Newcomer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Carrie Newcomer, American singer and songwriter
  • John Darlington Newcomer (1867–1931), American architect
  • Christian Newcomer (1749–1830), American farmer and preacher
  • Francis K. Newcomer (1889–1967), Governor of the Panama Canal Zone
  • Scott Newcomer, American politician
  • John Newcomer, American game developer, creator of Joust

Usage examples of "newcomer".

But the civilization of Little Arcady would be alien to the newcomers, and I was apprehensive that it would also be difficult.

The newcomers teach a new religion, that of the Avatara of Kalkin, and claim it has swept all other faiths before it, throughout all the worlds settled by humankind.

Sighting them in turn, the newcomer reined in behind a fallen log and raised a hand in greeting as they came into hailing distance, then pulled back his hood to reveal a backswept shock of silver hair above sparkling gray eyes, an aquiline nose, and a full silver beard.

To a newly minted young lawyer, they seemed the epitome of hospitality and noble friendliness, offering lodging to newcomers and hosting dinners and parties at Bellevue and Belvidere for those who came to town for the circuit court in the spring and fall.

The only newcomers are the betweenmaid, Joan, and the nurse-valet who attended on my father-in-law.

Because these newcomers enjoyed much lower overheads and were not subject to decisions made by boards of directors on the other side of the world, they cut deeply into the HBCs established business.

Now one thing, Calanthe, that I have to say to all newcomers and I only say it once, so remember it well.

The dancing had begun so many of the newcomers leaped from the carreta or the saddle into the middle of the dance.

Tarzan and the attack on the newcomers now ranged around the Temple of Cupay as well as in the cave mouth, when a cook named Piresi pointed east and screamed.

The newcomer was a little slipshod girl in dirty curlpapers, who informed me that her master was sorry he could not see me that day as he was particularly engaged, but if I would do him the favour of calling to-morrow, at the same hour, he should be at leisure, etc.

If it took three hundred years to reach Dest, then the newcomer had presumably not come directly from prewar Old Earth by straight-line-course, so it might well have fired off a good bit of its original supply of ammunition at stops along the way, and so far as he knew, it would not have been able to rearm anywhere.

He would assure it that Dest had always been friendly, that he was content to stay there, and the newcomer was free to stay or go, and all would be well.

Turkey Gobbler never could stand it to have others speak in that way when he was around, so he thought he would show the newcomer how important he was.

For a moment Guli Sarahi conferred with the newcomer, who appeared to be an Uzbek.

I put my hands over my pubes, realised that all four of the newcomers were naked as I, and simply relaxed.