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Meanings of tyro in English

Portuguese
principiante
Catalan
novici
Spanish
tiro

Someone new to a field or activity.

        principiante
        Usage of tyro in English
        1
        The veriest tyro of an expert toxicologist could too easily confute him.
        The Silent Bullet
        2
        For another, even a space tyro such as Channis could operate it.
        Second Foundation
        3
        He was, indeed, he told himself, the veriest tyro at the game.
        Okewood of the Secret Service
        4
        Sometimes the trick of fence is beaten down by a tyro's stroke.
        The Puppet Crown
        5
        Besides you, Monsieur, D'Hérouville is a tyro, a Mazarin to a Machiavelli.
        The Grey Cloak
        6
        The young tyro only needs minutes to be a SuperCoach gun.
        News.com.au
        7
        Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that.
        Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
        8
        But Costigan was no tyro in the art of dirty fighting.
        Triplanetary
        9
        I am myself no tyro at smiling, when in the humour.
        Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
        10
        But it's not just tyro events who find themselves out of their depth.
        The Irish Times
        11
        Man, a tyro in emotions, is cast in a simpler mould.
        Hints for Lovers
        12
        With a rifle the merest tyro might have bowled him over.
        Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
        13
        Never did the veriest tyro walk more innocently into a trap.
        The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Chris...
        14
        What Mr. Stewart says on this point should be read by every tyro.
        Prose Idylls, New and Old
        15
        So many tyro bands got their first break on the show.
        The Irish Times
        16
        To me, a tyro, it was evident that he disagreed with his master.
        The Mutiny of the Elsinore
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        tiro
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