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
Example Sentences
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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
I could never finish my mission for Simon Bass, but neither could I go on being a prentice, once they had learned the truth about me.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
“I don’t like spiders,” the smith’s prentice said.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
"When your voice changes. If you're a good prentice, meantime."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
In 1995, Keith starred in Next Of Kin as Maggie Prentice, a grandmother who made no secret of disliking her orphaned grandchildren when taking them in after the death of her estranged son.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
“That’s been a little bit on hold now,” said Travis Prentice, chief investment officer of Informed Momentum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Prosecutor Alex Prentice KC said that Mr Paterson started to cross the road and was struck by Fox's car at about 00:25.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
“Advancements are moving pretty quickly, and the stocks are massively outperforming,” Travis Prentice, chief investment officer of the Informed Momentum Company, told MarketWatch recently.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2025
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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