Definitions
someone new to a field or activity
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tyro, and from its etymon Latin tīrō (“beginner, novice; young apprentice; (Roman military) recruit”); further etymology unknown, possibly from an unattested Etruscan word.
Used in a sentence
“There ſtands a Structure on a riſing Hill, / VVhere Tyro's take their Freedom out to kill.”
“Schools, unleſs diſcipline vvhere doubly ſtrong, / Detain their adoleſcent charge too long. / The management of Tiro's of eighteen / Is difficult, their puniſhment obſcene.”
“I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Raw beginner”4 letters
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