beginner

beginner
/bi gin"euhr/, n.
1. a person or thing that begins.
2. a person who has begun a course of instruction or is learning the fundamentals: swimming for beginners.
3. a person who is inexperienced; novice.
[1350-1400; ME; see BEGIN, -ER1]

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