prentice
noun
prentice
1 American
[pren-tis]
/ ˈprɛn tɪs /
noun
Informal.
Prentice
2
American
[pren-tis]
/ ˈprɛn tɪs /
noun
prentice
British
/ ˈprɛntɪs /
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of prentice
1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice
Vocabulary lists containing prentice
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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
Everyone called the smith’s prentice “boy” despite the fact that he was a hand taller than anyone there.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
"So you feel you're ready to move from prentice to hired man. Are you quite certain you've learned everything you need to know?"
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
The smith’s prentice jumped backward and hit a table, knocking it over and almost falling to the ground himself.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Merilyn Prentice, 78, is another refugee from the state next door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
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
The University of Cambridge vice-chancellor Prof Deborah Prentice led the tributes, saying the faculty was "desperately saddened" to learn of his death.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
A group of university academics last week wrote to Prentice slamming Arday's appointment and asking her to appoint an independent body to probe what happened.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
As the bus was about to pull out that afternoon, one of the seventh-grade boys, Billy Morris, yelled up to Mrs. Prentice that Janice Avery wasn’t on the bus yet.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
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