different between coed vs neophyte

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

Borrowed from Latin neophytus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (neóphutos, “newly planted”), from ???? (néos, “new”) + ????? (phutón, “plant, child”). Surface analysis is neo- +? -phyte.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?ni.??fa?t/

Noun

neophyte (plural neophytes)

1. A beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.

   Synonyms: beginner, newbie, newcomer, starter

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii:

     A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it. Vegetarianism was then a new cult in England, and likewise for me, because, as we have seen, I had gone there a convinced meat-eater, and was intellectually converted to vegetarianism later. Full of the neophyte's zeal for vegetarianism, I decided to start a vegetarian club in my locality, Bayswater. I invited Sir Edwin Arnold, who lived there, to be Vice-President. Dr. Oldfield who was Editor of the The Vegetarian became President. I myself became the Secretary. The club went well for a while, but came to an end in the course of a few months. For I left the locality, according to my custom of moving from place to place periodically. But this brief and modest experience gave me some little training in organizing and conducting institutions.
2. A novice (recent convert); a new convert or proselyte; a new monk.

   Synonym: novice

3. (Christianity) A name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to those who have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, especially those converts from heathenism or Judaism.

   Synonym: catechumen

4. (botany) A plant species recently introduced to an area (in contrast to archaeophyte, a long-established introduced species).

   Antonym: archaeophyte

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:beginner

Translations

References

• Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 1987.

Further reading

• Neophyte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Neophyte in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• hypnotee, phytoene

Latin

Adjective

neophyte

1. vocative masculine singular of neophytus