Prentice
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
Other Word Forms
- underprentice noun
Etymology
Origin of prentice
1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice
Example Sentences
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“Is this young gentleman one of the ’prentices or articled ones of your office?” asked the turnkey, with a grin at Mr. Wemmick’s humour.
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An old weatherworker of the Vale, seeking to win the boy as prentice, had taught him several charms.
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What had ever made me imagine that I could impersonate someone else, that I could be anything other than Widge, the orphan, the unwilling prentice of some unsympathetic master in some unbearable trade?
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Eventually only the smith’s prentice remained, looking down into the cup in his hands.
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With enough coin, we could buy ’prentice glassblowers and glaziers in Myr, bring them north, offer them their freedom for teaching their art to some of our recruits.
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