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Word entry · 4 letters

tyro

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"Raw beginner"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈtaɪɹəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted ortyStarts with TEnds with O1 cluesCommon crossword word
1T2Y3R4O

Definitions

  1. 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.

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