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Noun: entrant  en-trunt
  1. Someone who enters
    "new entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures"
     
  2. One who enters a competition
    "The young entrant surprised everyone by winning first place"
     
  3. Any new participant in some activity
    "The experienced climbers welcomed the entrant to their mountaineering club";
    - newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman [N. Amer], newbie [informal], newb [non-standard], noob [non-standard], n00b [non-standard], shavetail [N. Amer, informal]
     
  4. A commodity that enters competition with established merchandise
    "a well publicized entrant is the pocket computer"

Derived forms: entrants

Type of: beginner, commodity, contestant, good, initiate, novice, rookie [informal], tiro, trade good, traveler [US], traveller [Brit, Cdn], tyro

Encyclopedia: Entrant