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/əprˈɛntəs/ /əprˈɛntɪs/ Listen

noun

Apprentice n.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

(Old law) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. (Obs.)

verb

Apprentice v. t. (past & past part. apprenticed; pres. part. apprenticing) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

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Etymology of 'Apprentice'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apprentice" Quotes from Famous Books

... nameless than his slave. He is not more of a bully than the tyrants of the past; but he is more of a coward. The rich publisher may treat the poor poet better or worse than the old master workman treated the old apprentice. But the apprentice ran away and the master ran after him. Nowadays it is the poet who pursues and tries in vain to fix the fact of responsibility. It is the publisher who runs away. The clerk of Mr. ...

— All Things Considered • G. K. Chesterton

... valuable, and he contented himself with this for the present, and even managed to forget its acquisition in his yearly report sent to Montreal. Father Francis Xavier was something of a geologist; his father was a Florentine jeweller, and the son had studied as his apprentice, not having at first been destined for the church. Even after taking holy orders, Father Francis Xavier had labored over precious stones designed for ecclesiastical decoration. His specialty had been that ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 • Various

... began to supply the wants of his machine with the help of an apprentice. The priest jumped out and entered the garage. Fandor followed ...

— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre

... gallery with an air of indecision, "perhaps that's a thief or a spy; anyhow, the shabby wretch can't be an honest man; if he wanted to speak to us he would come over frankly, instead of sidling along as he does—and what a face!" continued the apprentice, mimicking the man, "with his nose in his cloak, his yellow ...

— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac

... ceiling traversed by blackened beams. From the street below there came dimly through the closed casements the sound of rumbling traffic and the street cries of the London of the seventeenth century. Two vast presses of such colossal size that their wooden levers would tax the strength of the stoutest apprentice, were ranged against the further wall. About the room, spread out on oaken chairs and wooden benches, were flat boxes filled with leaden type, freshly molten, and a great pile of paper, larger than a man could lift, ...

— Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy • Stephen Leacock

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