prentice
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- underprentice noun
Etymology
Origin of prentice
1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice
Example Sentences
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Afterwards he made me his prentice, and so a mariner I have been from that day to this.
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Spare yourself many disappointments by putting your literary efforts before a competent critic, and let him point out the crudities, the digressions, and those weaknesses which betray the 'prentice hand.
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The Bar chose its special facings, so did the 'prentices, so did the adherents of each opulent grandee.
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Burns tells us that Nature tried her ’prentice hand on man ‘And then she made the lassies, oh!’
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He was returning, one summer evening—it was June 13—from the play at the Fortune Theatre, when he was recognised by a company of London prentices.
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