novice

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novice - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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              I am young; a novice in the trade.    --Dryden.
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     2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted
        to the Christian faith. --1 Tim. iii. 6.
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     3. (Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks
        or nuns, as a probationist. --Shipley.
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              No poore cloisterer, nor no novys.    --Chaucer.
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  Novice \Nov"ice\, a.
     Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]
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novice - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  novice
      n 1: someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken
           final vows [syn: novitiate, novice]
      2: someone new to a field or activity [syn: novice,
         beginner, tyro, tiro, initiate]

novice - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Novice, TX (city, FIPS 52668)
    Location: 31.98746 N, 99.62494 W
    Population (1990): 183 (101 housing units)
    Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 79538

novice - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "novice":
     abbess, abecedarian, alphabetarian, amateur, apprentice,
     articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, canoness, catechumen,
     clergywoman, colt, conventual, cub, deb, debutant, entrant,
     fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee,
     infant, initiate, lady superior, learner, mother superior,
     neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novitiate, nun, postulant,
     prentice, prioress, probationer, probationist, proselyte, punk,
     raw recruit, recruit, religieuse, rookie, secular canoness, sister,
     student, superioress, tenderfoot, the reverend mother, trainee,
     tyro, undergraduate