Tyro

Quick meaning: Tyro is a noun meaning A beginner; a novice.

Meaning

A beginner; a novice.

Example Sentences

The text, though, was marvellously accurate for a tyro’s work; and I concluded that Akeley must have used a machine at some previous period—perhaps in college.

I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.

Switzerland for Railfans, by B. J. Prigmore and W. J. Wyse (1s.) is a stencilled pamphlet produced by the Electric Railway Society with a number of useful tips for the tyro planning his first visit.

Alliance with the equally youthful Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, tyro mathematician of genius and darling of the Parisian salons, led to the two men commissioning articles for the new venture straight away [...].

Word Forms

• tyros
• tyroes

Synonyms for tyro

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include novice, beginner, initiate, tiro, neophyte, naif.

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