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Novice

Novice Meaning & Definition
Novice Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Novice?

[n] someone new to a field or activity
[n] someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

Synonyms | Synonyms for Novice: beginner | initiate | novitiate | tiro | tyro

Related Terms | Find terms related to Novice: abbess | abecedarian | alphabetarian | amateur | apprentice | articled clerk | baby | beginner | boot | canoness | catechumen | clergywoman | colt | conventual | cub | deb | debutant | entrant | fledgling | freshman | greenhorn | greeny | ignoramus | inductee | infant | initiate | lady superior | learner | mother superior | neophyte | nestling | new boy | newcomer | novitiate | nun | postulant | prentice | prioress | probationer | probationist | proselyte | punk | raw recruit | recruit | religieuse | rookie | secular canoness | sister | student | superioress | tenderfoot | the reverend mother | trainee | tyro | undergraduate

See Also | abecedarian | apprentice | cub | entrant | fledgeling | fledgling | freshman | greenhorn | landlubber | landsman | learner | lubber | neophyte | newcomer | prentice | religionist | religious person | rookie | starter | tenderfoot | trainee | unskilled person

Novice In Webster's Dictionary

\Nov"ice\, n. [F., from L. novicius, novitius, new, from novus new. See {New}, and cf. {Novitious}.] 1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro. I am young; a novice in the trade. --Dryden. 2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. --1 Tim. iii. 6. 3. (Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. --Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. --Chaucer.
\Nov"ice\, a. Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]

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