LekhoriLekhoriSomeone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
I'm new to learning Finnish: I'm just a beginner.
Someone who sets something in motion.
The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.
An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
On the stage, the beginners for the first piece had taken their places — the chorus were there, scared but determined, and in the wings waited Harlequin, in the person of Charles Lyall […]
From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin + -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Low German begünner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, ...
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