tyro
or ti·ro
a beginner in learning anything; novice.
Origin of tyro
1Other words for tyro
Other words from tyro
- ty·ron·ic [tahy-ron-ik], /taɪˈrɒn ɪk/, adjective
Words Nearby tyro
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How to use tyro in a sentence
The veriest tyro in natural history would see that at the first glance of the massive skeleton.
The youngest tyro, watching from the wings, observes great incidents and becomes their hasty historian.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonThe moment was critical; the veriest tyro felt the storm-spirit brooding over the hall.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonThe hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyIn Rome he first became acquainted with rules and technicalities, in which the merest tyro was before him.
British Dictionary definitions for tyro
tiro
/ (ˈtaɪrəʊ) /
a novice or beginner
Origin of tyro
1Derived forms of tyro
- tyronic or tironic (taɪˈrɒnɪk), adjective
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