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tyro
English
Alternative forms
- tiro
Etymology
From Latin t?ro (“young soldier, recruit”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ta????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ta??o?/
Noun
tyro (plural tyros or tyroes)
- A beginner; a novice. [from 17th c.]
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man:
- I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.
- 1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525,
- Master of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish...
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 5:
- The text, though, was marvellously accurate for a tyro’s work; and I concluded that Akeley must have used a machine at some previous period—perhaps in college.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 171:
- Alliance with the equally youthful Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, tyro mathematician of genius and darling of the Parisian salons, led to the two men commissioning articles for the new venture straight away [...].
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:beginner
Related terms
- tyrociny
- tirocinium
Translations
Anagrams
- Tory, Troy, ryot, tory, troy
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scholar
English
Etymology
From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English sc?lere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin schol?ris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school +? -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German sch?lære, sch?lere, sch?ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Doublet of escolar.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sk?l?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sk?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?(r)
Noun
scholar (plural scholars)
- A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
- A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
- A learned person; a bookman.
Synonyms
- (student): pupil, student
- (specialist): expert, specialist
- (learned person): academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite
Derived terms
Related terms
- scholiast
Translations
See also
- savant
Further reading
- scholar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- scholar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- chorals, lorchas, orchals
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