PRENTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prentice mean? 

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

1. works for an expert to learn a trade

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRENTICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Works for an expert to learn a trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apprentice; learner; prentice

Hypernyms ("prentice" 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 "prentice"):

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

 Context examples 

And now, my own dear Davy, said Peggotty, if, while you're a prentice, you should want any money to spend; or if, when you're out of your time, my dear, you should want any to set you up (and you must do one or other, or both, my darling); who has such a good right to ask leave to lend it you, as my sweet girl's own old stupid me!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I fear that you are yet a 'prentice to that trade, quoth the soldier; for there is no child over the water but could answer what you ask. Know then that though there may be peace between our own provinces and the French, yet within the marches of France there is always war, for the country is much divided against itself, and is furthermore harried by bands of flayers, skinners, Brabacons, tardvenus, and the rest of them. When every man's grip is on his neighbor's throat, and every five-sous-piece of a baron is marching with tuck of drum to fight whom he will, it would be a strange thing if five hundred brave English boys could not pick up a living.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I see more of the world, I can assure you,” said Mr. Omer, “in this chair, than ever I see out of it. You'd be surprised at the number of people that looks in of a day to have a chat. You really would! There's twice as much in the newspaper, since I've taken to this chair, as there used to be. As to general reading, dear me, what a lot of it I do get through! That's what I feel so strong, you know! If it had been my eyes, what should I have done? If it had been my ears, what should I have done? Being my limbs, what does it signify? Why, my limbs only made my breath shorter when I used 'em. And now, if I want to go out into the street or down to the sands, I've only got to call Dick, Joram's youngest “prentice, and away I go in my own carriage, like the Lord Mayor of London.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But he was always a poor, fond, silly creature, was Peter, though we are beholden to him for helping to bury our second son Wat, who was a 'prentice to him at Lymington in the year of the Black Death. But who are you, young sir?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)