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発音

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

名詞

beginner (複数形 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

• beginnerish
• beginner slope
• beginner's trap

Further reading

• “beginner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “beginner”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• benigner, bergenin