entrant

entrant
    n 1: a commodity that enters competition with established
         merchandise; "a well publicized entrant is the pocket
         computer"
    2: any new participant in some activity [syn: {newcomer},
       {fledgling}, {fledgeling}, {starter}, {neophyte}, {freshman},
       {newbie}, {entrant}]
    3: someone who enters; "new entrants to the country must go
       though immigration procedures"
    4: one who enters a competition
    

Entrant \En"trant\, n. [See {Entrance}, n.]
   1. One who enters; a beginner. "The entrant upon life." --Bp.
      Terrot.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. An applicant for admission. --Stormonth.
      [1913 Webster]
    

52 Moby Thesaurus words for "entrant":
      abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arrival, articled clerk,
      baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, comer, competitor, contender,
      contestant, corrival, deb, debutant, emulator, fledgling, freshman,
      greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, immigrant, in-migrant, incomer,
      inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, learner, neophyte, nestling,
      new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, player, postulant,
      probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, rival, rookie,
      settler, tenderfoot, the field, trainee, tyro, vier, visitant,
      visitor