Noun: debut
| Singular | debut |
| Plural | debuts |
Sample Sentences
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Liverpool's performance - despite a defensive injury crisis that saw a promising debut for teenage academy graduate John Flanagan - was a resounding advert for Kenny Dalglish to be given the manager's job on a permanent basis. [2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2019:]
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Hulking defenceman Gudbranson, who came to Vancouver in a trade with the Florida Panthers last May, scored in his debut for the Canucks. [2016 September 29, Jason Keller, “Eberle-McDavid-Lucic line debuts in Oilers pre-season loss to Canucks”, in CBC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2023:]
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Since making its debut two years ago, the program has gained cult status.
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their long-anticipated debut album
Nouns inflected like debut
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French début, from Middle French, derivative of débuter (“to move, begin”), from dé- + but (“mark, goal”), from Old French but (“aim, goal, end, target”), from Old French butte (“mound, knoll, target”), from Frankish *but (“stump, log”), or from Old Norse bútr (“log, stump, butt”); both from Proto-Germanic *butą (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Old English butt (“tree stump”). More at butt. The Philippine sense is influenced by Spanish debut. See: French Nouns '
début', Old Norse Nouns '
bútr', Spanish Nouns '
debut'.