Definition: noun a beginner in learning; novice; amateur

Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Latin tiro young soldier

Quotation: “[McKinley] was going to be content to allow the Congress to lead and the leaders of the party to tell the Congress what to do. It would be the standard Republican mode of operating since after Lincoln’s day. Roosevelt’s friends signaled to the new president that the tyro from New York understood what was expected. He would be a leashed lion.”

I’ve been reading “Lion in the White House”, a biography of Theodore Roosevelt. It is written and simply and generally gets to the point without any flowery verbiage, but I’ve noticed this word “tyro” sprinkled rather liberally throughout. Apparently Aida D. Donald has a special place in her heart for this particular word. It is beginning to grow on me too.