Thesaurus:newcomer
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: one who has recently come to a community
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- blow-in (Ireland)
- come-here (US dialect)
- comeling (obsolete)
- entrant
- FOB (sometimes derogatory)
- fresh meat (informal)
- freshie (UK)
- greener (slang, derogatory)
- incomer
- Johnny-come-lately
- Johnny Raw
- new chum (Australia, dated, mildly derogatory)
- newcomer
- newbie
- newling
- offcomer
- outcomeling
- stranger
Antonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Various
[edit]- fresh off the boat (adjectival phrase)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “57. extraneousness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “newcomer” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.