Novice
['nɒvɪs] or ['nɑvɪs]
Definition
(n.) One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
(n.) One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.
(n.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.
(a.) Like a novice; becoming a novice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Probationer.[2]. Tyro, beginner, learner.
Editor: Natasha
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TYRO]
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Definition
n. one new in anything: a beginner: one newly received into the church: an inmate of a convent or nunnery who has not yet taken the vow.—ns. Nov′iceship; Novi′ciate Novi′tiate the state of being a novice: the period of being a novice: a novice.
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Examples
- I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one was a crafty old sophister, and the other a true novice. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Could they not see at once the crude hand of a novice in that composition they called a forgery? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Not bad for a novice of twenty-two. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They were the merest novices in international affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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