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prentice

1 American  
[pren-tis] / ˈprɛn tɪs /

noun

Informal.

  1. apprentice.

Prentice 2 American  
[pren-tis] / ˈprɛn tɪs /

noun

  1. a male given name.

prentice British  
/ ˈprɛntɪs /

noun

  1. an archaic word for apprentice

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Other Word Forms

  • underprentice noun

Etymology

Origin of prentice

1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice

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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 was still but a prentice in the art, but slowly and painfully I was learning.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

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

So it was that I was permitted to stay on as a prentice with the company, and I was very grateful for it.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

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