Definitions for apprentice

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apprentice ap·pren·tice

Spelling: [uh-pren-tis]

IPA: /əˈprɛn tɪs/

Apprentice is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 642 anagrams from letters in apprentice (aceeinpprt).

Definitions for apprentice

noun

1. a person who works for another in order to learn a trade:
2. History/Historical. a person legally bound through indenture to a master craftsman in order to learn a trade.
3. a learner; novice; tyro.
4. U.S. Navy. an enlisted person receiving specialized training.
5. a jockey with less than one year's experience who has won fewer than 40 races.

verb (used with object)

1. to bind to or place with an employer, master craftsman, or the like, for instruction in a trade.

verb (used without object)

1. to serve as an apprentice:

Origin of apprentice

1300-50; Middle English ap(p)rentis Anglo-French, Old French ap(p)rentiz Vulgar Latin *apprenditīcius, equivalent to *apprendit(us) (for Latin apprehēnsus; see a

Examples for apprentice

Even reality-TV shows such as The apprentice and Survivor are fodder for the modern college student.

Now, the onetime Lloyd Kaufman/Troma apprentice is the toast of Tinseltown.

The Assistant Commissioner interrupted the apprentice statesman.

While Trump has The apprentice on NBC, Morris and Palin have recently been fired from Fox News.

His son William has been with me this winter, and goes in May to be an apprentice to a mason.

In 1966 Browne joined BP as an apprentice; his postings with them bought him to the US.

The chauffeur began to supply the wants of his machine with the help of an apprentice.

The apprentice's face appeared to me to say all that, and he had an honest face.

Cocker, for his part, worked briefly as an apprentice gasfitter but decided to take the plunge into the world of commercial music.

I understood, Marzak, that thou art sailing with us as apprentice.