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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Vetch had been made sorcerer this fall and was a prentice no more, but that set no barrier between them.
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So I sat about the courtyard and the stable, and like a good prentice, I waited.
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Cob peered closely at the newer, more attentive member of his small audience, the smith’s prentice.
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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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"I'm a 'prentice smith, and one day might be I'll make a master armorer . . . if I don't run off and lose my feet or get myself killed."
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