different between coed vs beginner

English

Adjective

coed (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of co-ed
   • 2010, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1694: Like A Hampshire Bathroom [comment]

     It was always one of the more awkward moments back in college when you would go into one of the (coed) restrooms and there’d be a couple people clearly goin’ at it in the shower.

Noun

coed (plural coeds)

1. Alternative form of co-ed

Anagrams

• Deco, OECD, code, deco, ecod

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *ko?d, from Proto-Celtic *kaitos.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ko???d/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /k?i?d/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ko?d/

Noun

coed f or f pl (plural coedydd or coedau, singulative coeden)

1. (collective) wood, timber
2. trees

Synonyms

• (South Wales) colfenni
• (literary) gw?dd
• (literary) prennau

Derived terms

• Betws-y-Coed
• coedio
• coediog
• coedwig

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “coed”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin +? -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b????n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b????n?/

Noun

beginner (plural beginners)

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

2. Someone who sets something in motion.

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 […]

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• beginnerish
• beginner's trap

Translations

Further reading

• beginner in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• beginner in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• benigner, bergenin

Dutch

Etymology

From beginnen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????n?r/
• Hyphenation: be?gin?ner
• Rhymes: -?n?r

Noun

beginner m (plural beginners, diminutive beginnertje n)

1. Someone who is just starting something, or has only recently started (similar to English)

Derived terms

• beginnerscursus