Neofan

Quick meaning: Neofan is a noun meaning (dated, fandom slang, science fiction) A newcomer to science fiction; a fan who is extremely new and inexperienced with the genre; a beginner.

Meaning

(dated, fandom slang, science fiction) A newcomer to science fiction; a fan who is extremely new and inexperienced with the genre; a beginner.

Example Sentences

Huzzah! Hopefully we'll get some fans, neo-fans and even fanlings to join us.

I heard a couple of neofans boasting that they were going to have breakfast with him!

COMING NEXT ISH: A department devoted to the BNF of tomorrow. 'Twill be the neofan of today who is the Tucker or Laney of tomorrow. So QUANDRY, the BNZ of tomorrow, will bring you biografies^([sic]) of lesser known fen.

For a while there, if three fans were swapping apazines, it’s a good bet that I was one of them. Not that I set a record for number of apas. Bruce Pelz, Robert Lichtman and a few other fans had made “omniapan-ism” fashionable among impressionable neofen like me. Bruce was not only in a lot of groups, but it seemed like he was Official Editor of half of them.

Word Forms

• neofans
• neofen
• neo

Synonyms for neofan

Depending on context, synonyms include fanling, abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, amateur, beginner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fanne, confan, eofan, fanling, newfriend, fanboy.

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