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prentice

1 American  
[pren-tis] / ˈprɛn tɪs /

noun

Informal.
  1. apprentice.


Prentice 2 American  
[pren-tis] / ˈprɛn tɪs /

noun

  1. a male given name.


prentice British  
/ ˈprɛntɪs /

noun

  1. an archaic word for apprentice

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of prentice

1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice

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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

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

"By the by, you two haven't met, have you? Widge, this is Chris Beeston. Not so long ago he was a lowly prentice like us."

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

I was still but a prentice in the art, but slowly and painfully I was learning.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

The study included 405 pregnant individuals receiving care at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago between 2020 and 2024.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Prosecutor Alex Prentice KC also told the hearing there were further witnesses who have died since the incident.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

On Wednesday, Prentice had called his alleged wrongdoing "an aberration" and vowed a thorough and transparent investigation, while insisting it should not be used "to cast aspersions" on other academics from ethnic minority backgrounds.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

“We are desperately saddened to hear this tragic news,” said Cambridge University Vice Chancellor Deborah Prentice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

She made such a fuss that Mrs. Prentice, the driver, ordered Jesse off the bus, and he had to walk the three miles home.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

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