novice

[Nov·ice]

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One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

Noun
someone new to a field or activity

Noun
someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

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.

Novice

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.

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.

Novice

Nov"ice, a. Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]

One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

Like a novice; becoming a novice.

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Usage Examples

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

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Other Usage Examples

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.