apprentice
97
3.4
- noun
- /əˈprɛntɪs/
:
aprendiz
- Anybody interested in becoming an apprentice optician, raise your hand.
- master and apprentice
- young apprentice
- apprentice and journeyman
I'm actually an apprentice at this time.
- I'm actually an apprentice at this time.
- And then we invent this whole class of essentially apprentices that we call postdocs, right?
- And when Carrie was kept, Monkey took him almost like a little apprentice.
- They had been trained in the European sort of apprentice program, the tradition.
- You know, back in the day, you'd be a joiner and I'd be your apprentice.
- We've got lots of apprentices been trained on standard motor technology.
- He always had scientists and artists and apprentices and students and musicians and historians and writers around him.
- He comes back later and says, you know, I I cured you, you owe me and you need to be my apprentice.
- We have morphed this fairly hapless but good-natured guy who is hired as death's apprentice.
- And so she's able to go and help investigate all of these murders and she ends up meeting Thomas Cresswell, who is her uncle's apprentice.
- I had a couple of apprentice monks with me.
- And so he gets a request from a local book binder to go work at their studio as an apprentice.
- It's the soldier, it's the nun, it's the student who is going to become the scientist, it's the sorcerer's apprentice.
- He one day gets told that he has been requested to come to a different part of town and work as a book binder's apprentice.
- And he quit and decided to become an apprentice sword maker and has now been on his own.
Examples
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Mentors should introduce their apprentices to as many people in the school community as possible.
Academic text (1994) -
I'm actually an apprentice at this time.
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And you will, my apprentice, in time.
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I am but an apprentice, and he is the greatest painter in the world.
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They say I ought to spend a couple of years as an apprentice or go to a trade school.
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He'll arrive as a butcher's apprentice.
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Instead, at 18, he got a job as an apprentice clerk and bookkeeper in a New York dry-goods store.
Academic text (2011) -
In Logan's play about Rothko, we learn that the apprentice is haunted by a bloody past.
Academic text (2011) -
In the next novel, The Apprentice, Gerritsen introduced medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles.
Academic text (2008) -
After finishing high school, she decided to become an apprentice at a local bakery.
Synonyms
229
3.1
A student or recent graduate who works temporarily to gain work experience
50
2.4
A person learning the skills needed for a job
13
9.5
A young student who trains to be a Jedi
2
9.9
A person who works for an expert to learn a trade
Compounds
- Informal
A person who starts something and then loses control, causing big problems
How Skilled
791
4.2
10
3.1
9
7.0
97
3.4
50
2.4
81
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Apprentice comes from an old Latin word apprendere that means 'to take' or 'to grasp'. An apprentice 'grabs' a skill by working with a skilled person, which is why the word means someone learning a trade.