APPRENTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apprentice mean? 

• APPRENTICE (noun)
  The noun APPRENTICE has 1 sense:

1. works for an expert to learn a trade

  Familiarity information: APPRENTICE used as a noun is very rare.

• APPRENTICE (verb)
  The verb APPRENTICE has 1 sense:

1. be or work as an apprentice

  Familiarity information: APPRENTICE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPRENTICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Works for an expert to learn a trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apprentice; learner; prentice

Hypernyms ("apprentice" is a kind of...):

beginner; initiate; novice; tiro; tyro (someone new to a field or activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apprentice"):

printer's devil (an apprentice in a printing establishment)

Derivation:

apprentice (be or work as an apprentice)

apprenticeship (the position of apprentice)

• APPRENTICE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they apprentice    ... he / she / it apprentices   
Past simple: apprenticed   
Past participle: apprenticed   
-ing form: apprenticing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be or work as an apprentice

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

She apprenticed with the great master

Hypernyms (to "apprentice" is one way to...):

prepare; train (undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

apprentice (works for an expert to learn a trade)

 Context examples 

At last she came here, apprenticed for three years.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was a man born blind, who had several apprentices in his own condition: their employment was to mix colours for painters, which their master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had found her a boy as an apprentice also so that she should not want help while I was gone.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Jim Harrison seems to be a most respectable young fellow, but after all he is a blacksmith’s apprentice, and a candidate for the prize-ring.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had been suffocating in that atmosphere, while the apprentice's chatter had driven him frantic.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

By profession I am a hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had myself been apprenticed by my former visits to this watching horror; and yet I, who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs, felt my heart sink within me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then he called his daughter and the children, then the apprentices, girls and boys, and they all ran up the street to look at the bird, and saw how splendid it was with its red and green feathers, and its neck like burnished gold, and eyes like two bright stars in its head.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Everything reached out to hold him down—his sister, his sister's house and family, Jim the apprentice, everybody he knew, every tie of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She is at present apprenticed, Miss Mowcher, or articled, or whatever it may be, to Omer and Joram, Haberdashers, Milliners, and so forth, in this town.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)