prentice
noun
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prentice
1 American
[pren-tis]
/ ˈprɛn tɪs /
noun
Informal.
Prentice
2
American
[pren-tis]
/ ˈprɛn tɪs /
noun
prentice
British
/ ˈprɛntɪs /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of prentice
1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice
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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
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
While they were still grousing, the door opened and the smith’s prentice came in, boyish and broad- shouldered with the smell of coalsmoke in his hair.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once into the mystery and mastery of power.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"You wouldn't be the first prentice who's run off. Sander said you'd found your first day not quite to your liking."
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
A strong momentum-driven trend doesn’t always end in a crash, Prentice said.
From MarketWatch ● May 30, 2026
Airlines slowed hiring even before the global financial crisis, as they underwent restructurings and bankruptcies, says Brian Prentice, a partner in the transportation practice at Oliver Wyman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Prentice asked White if Kimberley said anything during the interaction, but White described her as "too frightened".
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
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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