new-comer

A form of newcomer — One who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.

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Meanings

nounnew-comer (plural new-comers)

plural new-comers

  1. datedDated form of newcomer.

    Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered. He bowed to Lady Ingram, as deeming her the eldest lady present.

    1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in Jane Eyre
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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.

    1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
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Chicago

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