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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an awkward and inexperienced youth [syn: cub, greenhorn, rookie]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of recruit Date: 1892 1. recruit; also novice 2. a first-year participant in a major professional sport

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. sl. 1 a new recruit, esp. in the army or police. 2 US a new member of a sports team. Etymology: corrupt. of recruit, after ROOK(1)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rookies) 1. A rookie is someone who has just started doing a job and does not have much experience, especially someone who has just joined the army or police force. (mainly AM INFORMAL) I don't want to have another rookie to train. N-COUNT: oft N n 2. A rookie is a person who has been competing in a professional sport for less than a year. (AM) N-COUNT: oft N n

Moby Thesaurus

abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, colt, conscript, deb, debutant, draft, drafted man, draftee, emigrant, enlistee, enrollee, entrant, fledgling, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, immigrant, inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, learner, levy, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, novus homo, parvenu, postulant, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, selectee, settler, squatter, stowaway, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, upstart