Incomer vs Newcomer - What's the difference?
incomer | newcomer |
An outsider who moves to a community or a place, as used by those who consider themselves to be its original inhabitants.
One who comes in.
One who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 A new participant in some activity; a neophyte.
As nouns the difference between incomer and newcomer
is that incomer is an outsider who moves to a community or a place, as used by those who consider themselves to be its original inhabitants while newcomer is one who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.As a proper noun Newcomer is
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(en noun)newcomer
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(en noun)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
