Hypertext Webster Gateway: "novice"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Novice \Nov"ice\, a.
Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Novice \Nov"ice\, n. [F., from L. novicius, novitius, new, from
novus new. See {New}, and cf. {Novitious}.]
1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling;
one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a
beginner; a tyro.
I am young; a novice in the trade. --Dryden.
2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted
to the Christian faith. --1 Tim. iii. 6.
3. (Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks
or nuns, as a probationist. --Shipley.
No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
novice
adj : at a first stage of development; just becoming familiar with
the rudiments or skills or routines; "a beginning
bodybuilder"; "a beginning reader"; "a novice cook"
[syn: {beginning(a)}, {novice(a)}]
n 1: someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken
final vows [syn: {novitiate}]
2: someone new to a field or activity [syn: {beginner}, {tyro},
{tiro}, {initiate}]
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