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Entrant

noun

A commodity that enters competition with established merchandise.

Any new participant in some activity. Synonyms: fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter.

Someone who enters.

One who enters a competition.

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"Entrant" Quotes from Famous Books

... all but lapped in the red of British territory. That would be to our advantage were our fighting force superior or equal or even not much inferior to that of the enemy. In a general way it is an advantage to have your frontier in the form of a re-entrant angle; for then you can strike on your enemy's flank and threaten his communications. That advantage the Boers possess against Natal, and that is why Sir George White has abandoned Laing's Nek and Newcastle, and holds the line of the Biggarsberg: even so the Boers might conceivably ...

— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens

... n'y a que la liberte (j'entends la moderee et la reguliere) et la religion, qui, par un effort combine, puissent soulever les hommes au-dessus du bourbier ou l'egalite democratique les plonge naturellement.—December 1, 1852, OEuvres, vii. 295. L'un de mes reves, le principal en entrant dans la vie politique, etait de travailler a concilier l'esprit liberal et l'esprit de religion, la societe nouvelle et l'eglise.—November 15, 1843, OEuvres Inedites, ii. 121. La veritable grandeur de ...

— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton

... Confucius written in their native tongue. The thing looked convincing. It was not at all incredible or unique. It bore Government sanction, if not its trademark. And granting that the reservation tract did actually extend so far as to lap across the "Laughing Water" claim, the right of an entrant to locate the ground and oust all previous trespassers after ...

— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels