Thesaurus:newcomer
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: one who has recently come to a community[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- blow-in (Ireland)
- come-here (US dialect)
- comeling (obsolete)
- entrant
- FOB (sometimes derogatory)
- fresh meat (informal)
- freshie (UK)
- greener (slang, derogatory)
- incomer
- Johnny-come-lately
- Johnny Raw
- new chum (Australia, dated, mildly derogatory)
- newcomer
- newbie
- newling
- offcomer
- outcomeling
- stranger
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
Various[edit]
- fresh off the boat (adjectival phrase)
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “57. extraneousness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “newcomer” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.