ty·ro

also ti·ro (tī′rō)

n. pl. ty·ros also ti·ros

A beginner in learning something.

[Medieval Latin tȳrō, squire, variant of Latin tīrō, recruit.]

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tyro

(ˈtaɪrəʊ) or

tiro

n, pl -ros

a novice or beginner

[C17: from Latin tīrō recruit]

tyronic, tironic adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ty•ro

or ti•ro

(ˈtaɪ roʊ)

n., pl. -ros.

a beginner in learning anything; novice.

[1605–15; < Latin tīrō recruit]

ty•ron′ic (-ˈrɒn ɪk) adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

tyro - someone new to a field or activity

beginner, initiate, tiro, novice

unskilled person - a person who lacks technical training

abecedarian - a novice learning the rudiments of some subject

apprentice, prentice, learner - works for an expert to learn a trade

cub, greenhorn, rookie - an awkward and inexperienced youth

landlubber, landsman, lubber - an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage

fledgeling, fledgling, newbie, newcomer, entrant, freshman, neophyte, starter - any new participant in some activity

tenderfoot - an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)

trainee - someone who is being trained

tyro

also tiro
noun

One who is just starting to learn or do something:

abecedarian, beginner, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, initiate, neophyte, novice, novitiate, tenderfoot.

Slang: rookie.

Translations

principiante

tyro

[ˈtaɪərəʊ] N → novicio/a m/f, principiante mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tyro

n → Anfänger(in) m(f); a tyro skier etc → ein Anfänger beim or im Skilaufen etc

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tyro

tiro [ˈtaɪrəʊ] n (Brit) (old) (frm) → principiante m/f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Others are acquired after birth; and of these some are bodily marks, as scars; some external tokens, as necklaces, or the little ark in the Tyro by which the discovery is effected.

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I was still a tyro so far as concerned knowing how to behave in desperate circumstances.

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We never yet heard of such a woman; we know all about Tyro, Alcmena, Mycene, and the famous women of old, but they were nothing to your mother any one of them.

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Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that.

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I once heard a pirate swear, but his best efforts would have seemed like those of a tyro alongside of Perry's masterful and scientific imprecations.

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Looking back, I am confident that the only one there who guessed I was a tyro at bar-drinking was Johnny Heinhold.

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In one instance a considerable and characteristic section can be traced from extant fragments and notices: Salmoneus, son of Aeolus, had a daughter Tyro who bore to Poseidon two sons, Pelias and Neleus; the latter of these, king of Pylos, refused Heracles purification for the murder of Iphitus, whereupon Heracles attacked and sacked Pylos, killing amongst the other sons of Neleus Periclymenus, who had the power of changing himself into all manner of shapes.

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At any time it is a strange sight to the tyro to see with what wondrous habitude of unconscious skill the whaleman will maintain an erect posture in his boat, even when pitched about by the most riotously perverse and cross-running seas.

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Her trained ear detected the weaknesses and exaggerations, the overemphasis of the tyro, and she was instantly aware each time the sentence-rhythm tripped and faltered.

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It had expected a rushing battle between Danny Ward and Billy Carthey, and here it must put up with this poor little tyro. Still further, it had manifested its disapproval of the change by betting two, and even three, to one on Danny.

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She told him of the penalty of breaking the taboo of the Red One--a week of torture, living, the details of which she yammered out from her face in the mire until he realized that he was yet a tyro in knowledge of the frightfulness the human was capable of wreaking on the human.

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"`That Gascon' has saved a queen and made Monsieur de Richelieu confess that in point of talent, address and political skill, to him he was only a tyro."

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