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beginner | elementary |

As a noun beginner

is someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.

As an adjective elementary is

relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.

beginner

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Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
    • I'm pretty new at learning Japanese, I'm just a beginner .
  • Someone who sets (or puts) something in motion
    • The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch .

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    elementary

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
  • Relating to an elementary school.
  • (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
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    • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
  • (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.

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