Fledgling
Fledgling noun - A person who is just starting out in a field of activity.
Usage example: at hockey he's still a fledgling and needs to work on his basic skating skills
Nearby Words: fledged, fledging
Recruit
Recruit noun - A person who is just starting out in a field of activity.
Usage example: the skydiving instructor and other experienced jumpers tried to encourage the new recruits on their first jump
Fledgling is a synonym for recruit in person beginning service topic. You can use "Fledgling" instead a noun "Recruit".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- apprentice and fledgling
- apprentice and recruit
- convert and fledgling
- convert and recruit
- beginner and fledgling
- beginner and recruit
- novice and fledgling
- novice and recruit
- greenhorn and fledgling
- greenhorn and recruit
- initiate and fledgling
- initiate and recruit
- learner and fledgling
- learner and recruit
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- In Just a Gigolo, which is set in post-WWI Berlin, Paul, the protagonist gets a post-mortem conversion into the fledgling Nazi party, which had earlier tried and failed to recruit him when he's accidentally killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Source: Post Mortem Conversion -
While training the fledgling modern Japanese army, he gets on the firing range and orders a recruit to shoot him (only to miss, predictably) to prove a point about the soldiers not being ready for combat yet.
Source: Death Seeker
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