mindmap root((新人)) novice stresses inexperience: a ski slope designed for ~s. apprentice applies to a beginner serving under a master or teacher and stresses subordination than inexperience: a bricklayer's ~. probationer applies to a beginner on trial for a period of time in which he or she must demonstrate aptitude: among the graduate students who were ~s in the field. postulant designates a candidate on probation, especially for admission to a religious order: gives advice to young ~s in the community. neophyte usually suggests initiation and is applicable to one who is new to and learning the ways of something, such as an association, a science, or an art, and often connotes youthful eargerness and unsophistication: could easily tell the eager ~s from the jaded professionals.