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rookie
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rookie has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rookie, n. sl.
1 a new recruit, esp. in the army or police.
2 US a new member of a sports team.
1 a new recruit, esp. in the army or police.
2 US a new member of a sports team.
Etymology
corrupt. of recruit, after ROOK(1)
THESAURUS
rookie
abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, colt, conscript, deb, debutant, draft, drafted man, draftee, emigrant, enlistee, enrollee, entrant, fledgling, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, immigrant, inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, learner, levy, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, novus homo, parvenu, postulant, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, selectee, settler, squatter, stowaway, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, upstart
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