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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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
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
An old weatherworker of the Vale, seeking to win the boy as prentice, had taught him several charms.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Such practices, however, she kept from her young prentice, and as far as she was able she taught him honest craft.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"When your voice changes. If you're a good prentice, meantime."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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