英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɪˈɡɪnə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /bəˈɡɪnɚ/

名詞

beginner (plural beginners)

1. Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.

   I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.

2. Someone who sets something in motion.

   The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.

   • 1906 September 8, “Tempering Justice in America; Making it Cruel Abroad: What is being Done in Many Lands to Cure the Criminal”, in The Sun, volume 30, number 205, St. John, New Brunswick, page 13:

     This method, it is thought, stands a very good chance of becoming legalized in Maryland, the State which has some fame for being a beginner of things. Maryland received the first telegraphic message in the world; it had the first electric railway in the world, and formed the first steam railway company in America.

3. (theater) An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
   • 1949, Walter Macqueen-Pope, Gaiety: Theatre of Enchantment, page 60:

     On the stage, the beginners for the first piece had taken their places — the chorus were there, scared but determined, and in the wings waited Harlequin, in the person of Charles Lyall […]

同意語

• (recent starter): amateur, newbie
• See also Thesaurus:beginner

派生語

Further reading

• “beginner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “beginner”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• benigner, bergenin