Other forms: newcomers
A newcomer is somebody who has just arrived. A relative newcomer, welcome the newcomers, a newcomer to the field.
It takes to when the field is named, and relative newcomer is the standard hedge for somebody who has been there a while but not from the start. It is neutral, which is what makes it useful where incomer sounds unwelcoming.
1nounnewcomerSomebody who has just arrived.
“The villagers were friendly and made the newcomers feel welcome.”
newcomer is a person.
New plus comer, in Middle English. Old English had a similar compound for a novice.
Middle English
newe-comere
English, today
newcomer
From Middle English newe-comere, equivalent to new- + comer. Compare Old English nīwcumen (“new comer, neophyte, novice”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA