Newcome vs Newcomer - What's the difference?
newcome | newcomer |
A stranger newly arrived; a new-comer.
(dialectal) The time at which any fruit comes into season.
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 an adjective newcome
is just arrived; lately come.As a noun newcome
is a stranger newly arrived; a new-comer.As a proper noun newcomer is
.newcome
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Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) neowecomen, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) neowecomen, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)newcomer
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Noun
(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.}}