prentice
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
Other Word Forms
- underprentice noun
Etymology
Origin of prentice
1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice
Vocabulary lists containing prentice
Example Sentences
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However, I'm clined to think such words as fulgent, prentice, jangled and pression are Bare Roots rather than Lost Positives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.
From Time Magazine Archive
But to Falconer I was apparently no more than an unskilled and incompetent prentice, not fit to converse with or share a room with.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Though he was no friend, yet he was a fellow prentice, and I had no desire to see him run through.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
But in the past weeks, I had learned something of what it meant to have friends, and to be a real prentice, not a mere slave.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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