Explore Greenhorn through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like cub or rookie. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Greenhorn meaning
- An inexperienced person; a novice, beginner, or newcomer.
- A Portuguese person.
Using Greenhorn
- The main meaning on this page is: An inexperienced person; a novice, beginner, or newcomer. | A Portuguese person.
- Useful related words include: cub, rookie, novice, beginner.
- In the example corpus, greenhorn often appears in combinations such as: greenhorn to, political greenhorn.
Context around Greenhorn
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Greenhorn
- In this selection, "greenhorn" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, political, gary, john, stressed, tiptoed and creek stand out and add context to how "greenhorn" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a political greenhorn to take and and political greenhorn tiptoed into. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "greenhorn" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with greenhorn
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A 40 years young man and political greenhorn tiptoed into the leadership space of the state. (16 words)
Begins just past Greenhorn at Cromberg and covers everything east to the county line past Chilcoot. (16 words)
Orimiston secretary John Greenhorn, who is also East of Scotland League president, has been in dialogue with Gilbert this week. (20 words)
But this has proved a bitter pill to swallow for some senior ABC veterans like the outgoing chairperson Motlohi Maliehe who have publicly said they cannot allow a ‘political greenhorn’ to take over the leadership of a party they formed in 2006. (42 words)
The distance from home to school must be measured via a safe walking route but the head of planning and resources, Gary Greenhorn, stressed that government guidelines say that the route should be safe for a child accompanied by an adult. (41 words)
Rio defeated Congress’ Seyievelie Sachu, a greenhorn in the political arena, in Northern Angami II by a record margin of 15,824 votes. (23 words)
Example sentences (8)
Rio defeated Congress’ Seyievelie Sachu, a greenhorn in the political arena, in Northern Angami II by a record margin of 15,824 votes.
The distance from home to school must be measured via a safe walking route but the head of planning and resources, Gary Greenhorn, stressed that government guidelines say that the route should be safe for a child accompanied by an adult.
While Dolly is no greenhorn to the gig, it’s Garth’s first hosting role and it’s got him jittery.
A 40 years young man and political greenhorn tiptoed into the leadership space of the state.
Orimiston secretary John Greenhorn, who is also East of Scotland League president, has been in dialogue with Gilbert this week.
Begins just past Greenhorn at Cromberg and covers everything east to the county line past Chilcoot.
But this has proved a bitter pill to swallow for some senior ABC veterans like the outgoing chairperson Motlohi Maliehe who have publicly said they cannot allow a ‘political greenhorn’ to take over the leadership of a party they formed in 2006.
He found the main body of the Comanche on Greenhorn Creek, returning from a raid in Nuevo México, and won a decisive victory.
Common combinations with greenhorn
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- greenhorn to 2×
- political greenhorn 2×