Synonyms of entrants

entrants

noun

plural of entrant

as in entries

a person who enters something (such as a competition)

Each entrant had to agree to the contest rules.

There were thousands of new entrants into the competition.

Related Words

• entries
• competitors
• candidates
• contestants
• recruits
• applicants
• freshmen
• students
• newcomers
• novices
• rookies
• probationers
• apprentices
• virgins
• newbies
• beginners
• qualifiers
• colts
• novitiates
• greenhorns
• tyros
• hopefuls
• fledglings
• neophytes
• seekers
• favorites
• rooks
• aspirants
• contenders
• punks
• cubs
• tenderfeet
• campaigners
• trainees
• abecedarians
• babes
• amateurs
• learners
• dabblers
• prospects
• expectants
• appliers
• dilettantes

Dissimilar Words

• dropouts
• noncandidates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of entrants

The $4 million will be invested over the next three years in supporting new entrants and re-skilling mid-career professionals. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026

The energy apprenticeship pipeline only had 45,000 entrants in 2024, but really needs 65,000 professionals flowing in yearly to close the labor supply gap. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026

To date, astronomers have found more than 6,300 of these alien worlds orbiting other stars, with new entrants to our exoplanetary catalogs arriving practically every day. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026

At the Grand Slams, which have 128 entrants in the men’s and women’s singles fields, wild cards usually take up six percent of the entries. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

While rising college-going rates helped university entrants grow to 640,000 over that period, the government projects that number will fall to about 510,000 by 2040 as demographic decline accelerates. — Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

But Tencent is facing a slew of competition in the AI space, from established titans like Alibaba to newer entrants like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, the developer of the Kimi models. — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026

The sluggish job market has shut out new entrants and left people like Ruiz feeling stuck. — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

The goal is to get more Derby horses to run in the Preakness after more than 85% of the entrants in the last five years, including three winners — Rich Strike (2022), Sovereignty (2025) and Golden Tempo (2026) — skipped the Maryland race. — Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026