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tyro

noun
/ˈtaɪɹəʊ/UK/ˈtaɪɹoʊ/US

Etymology

From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”). In Medieval Latin the term was often spelt as tyro whence the English spelling is derived.

  1. borrowed from tīrō

Definitions

  1. A beginner

    A beginner; a novice.

    • 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.
    • Thus[…] he separates[…] the details and the whole[…]; and because details alone[…] are the sign of a tyro's work, he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details […] are the sign of the production of a consummate master.
    • 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...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tyro. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA