What does rookie mean?

Definitions for rookie
ˈrʊk irook·ie

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word rookie.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. cub, greenhorn, rookienoun

    an awkward and inexperienced youth

Wiktionary

  1. rookienoun

    An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.

  2. rookienoun

    A novice.

  3. rookienoun

    An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.

  4. rookienoun

    A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

  5. rookieadjective

    non-professional; amateur

    The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.

  6. Etymology: From recruit and -ie, thought to be an alteration of recruit, another reasonable origin is broekie (short for broekvent), a common term for a shipmate.

Wikipedia

  1. Rookie

    A rookie is a person new to an occupation, profession, or hobby. In sports, a rookie is a professional athlete in their first season (or year). In contrast with a veteran who has experience, a rookie is typically considered needing more training and learning, though they may bring a new outside expertise to a job.

ChatGPT

  1. rookie

    A rookie is a person who is new to a profession, organization, or undertaking, typically in fields like sports, jobs, or any new skill or activity. They are inexperienced or in the early stages of their role or involvement and often undergoing a learning process.

Wikidata

  1. Rookie

    A rookie is a person in his or her first year of a sport, or someone who is new to a profession, training or activity such as a rookie cop, rookie pilot, a recruit, or occasionally a freshman.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rookie in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rookie in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of rookie in a Sentence

  1. Katrina Scott:

    I feel like the word ‘rookie’ is a representation of Sports Illustrated saying, ‘Welcome to the family,’ i’m representing someone who is also a mom and has gone through the things that I’ve gone through. I’m a mom of one. I have three angels that I’ve lost to three pregnancies in the last year. I work through it every single day.

  2. Bruce Bennett/Pool via AP:

    Our player, who is in St. Louis for our rookie camp, is safe as local authorities work to apprehend the suspect, we will have no further comment at this time.

  3. Ronald Martinez/Getty Images:

    Today we was just going out to eat because it’s rookie night.

  4. Camille Kostek:

    I get just as excited to show up on that set and shoot for that magazine as I did when I was a rookie, it is one of the most honorable things that I do. It goes beyond just posing for the magazine. The women behind the brand, the models within the brand, they're people like I'd never met before. Everyone just shares such a light and a love for wanting to really make waves in this industry, and I really didn't get my big yes until Sports Illustrated.

  5. Sakura Uchikoshi:

    Male candidates have networks and ... the lack of that for rookie female candidates makes it difficult.

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