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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Entrant \En"trant\, noun [See {Entrance}, noun]
1. One who enters; a beginner. ''The entrant upon life.'' --Bp. Terrot.
2. An applicant for admission. --Stormonth.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
entrant
noun
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}]
3: someone who enters; "new entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures"
4: one who enters a competition
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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