novice

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

  1. noun someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
  2. noun someone new to a field or activity

Etymology

From Middle English novice, novys, from Anglo-Norman novice, Middle French novice, itself borrowed from Latin novīcius, later novitius (“new, newly arrived”) (in Late Latin as a noun, masculine novicius, feminine novicia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”)), from novus (“new”).

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Synonyms

novitiate

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