neófito — meaning in English

English meaning

• neophyte noun Someone who has just started learning a subject or skill.
• newbie noun Someone who is new to a particular activity, community, or skill.

Senses

neófito is used for these senses in English:

• newbie (Internet) A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity). A beginner.
• proselyte One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism.

neophyte — full definition

1. noun Someone who has just started learning a subject or skill.
2. noun A person who has recently joined a religious group or order.
3. noun Someone recently baptised into the Christian church after converting from another faith, a term used by the earliest Christians and still by Catholics today.
4. noun A plant that has only recently appeared in a region, unlike one established there long before.

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