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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.

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 E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “beginner”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• benigner, bergenin