Beginner

Definitions

1. Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
2. Someone who sets something in motion.
3. An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.

Equivalents

Examples

“I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.”

“The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.”

“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 […]”

CEFR level