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[ UK /ɡɹˈiːnhɔːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. an awkward and inexperienced youth

How To Use greenhorn In A Sentence

  • The 40-year-old has come a long way from the political greenhorn that he was when he contested his first general election without a poster campaign.
  • Renee W. said, "Sometimes a greenhorn is a dark horse and even a nova. Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition
  • Y Combinator a ‘farm team’ seed funder for greenhorns all of which are Web 2.0 wannabes that would have no chance of making it without a ’seed hedge fund’ manager. Who Are the Y Combinator Companies?
  • One hundred and twelve days before, the nine of us greenhorns, just out of training schools, took our first combat crew training flight together at Dyersburg Army Air Base, Tennessee.
  • A greenhorn like you would just slow down the process.
  • But China would probably prefer to deal with a known quantity than a greenhorn.
  • A fool of a greenhorn was a-managin 'of the thing, an' this is the result. The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes Or, the secret of the island cave
  • His first-time-out direction is imaginative and breathtakingly supple, the work of a greenhorn unsaddled by convention or limitation and able to tell a story in the precise terms forged by hundreds of live performances.
  • As the only greenhorn aboard, I wasn't too concerned and thought this would be a good time to grab a snack.
  • Being a "greenhorn" -- i.e., just off the boat -- was a put down back when your professor, PT, was coming up. TPMCafe
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