informal
: a person who has recently started a particular activity : beginner, novice, newcomer
It's true that some users–particularly newbies—fall into the Web like Alice down the rabbit hole.—
Scott Kirsner
Scott KirsnerWhat will happen when all those newbie politicians sit down in the swivel chair for the first time?—Geoff Clark
Geoff ClarkExamples of newbie in a Sentence
He is a newbie to local politics.
a newbie to woodworking, he was still trying to learn all the terms and techniques of the craft
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Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Spagnuolo has been known for running a complicated scheme, and Fulton is one of the defense’s newbies after joining the team this offseason on a two-year free-agent deal.
—Jesse Newell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Within the first two hours online, high-level fighting players had already seemingly mastered the game’s beginner-friendly systems and begun using the easily executable combos to dominate the scene, air juggling hapless newbies into oblivion.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Anyier Anei is Ada, a newbie model from South Sudan by way of Kenya, wide-eyed and hungry as she’s tossed into a maelstrom of haughty men and clubgoing sisters in strutting.
—Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Newbie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newbie. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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