fledgling

Adjective

• young and inexperienced
  • a fledgling enterprise
    
  • a fledgling skier
    
  • an unfledged lawyer
    

• (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers
  • a fledgling robin
    

Noun

• young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying

• any new participant in some activity

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  unfledged , callow , fledgling(a) , fledgeling(a) , fledgeling , newcomer , starter , neophyte , freshman , newbie , entrant