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APPRENTICE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Works for an expert to learn a trade

Synonyms:

apprentice; learner; prentice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be or work as an apprentice

Example:

She apprenticed with the great master

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

In the nurseries of females of the meaner sort, the children are instructed in all kinds of works proper for their sex, and their several degrees: those intended for apprentices are dismissed at seven years old, the rest are kept to eleven.

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

Jim was a plumber's apprentice whose weak chin and hedonistic temperament, coupled with a certain nervous stupidity, promised to take him nowhere in the race for bread and butter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.

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

The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, and handicrafts, are managed proportionably after the same manner; only those designed for trades are put out apprentices at eleven years old, whereas those of persons of quality continue in their exercises till fifteen, which answers to twenty-one with us: but the confinement is gradually lessened for the last three years.

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

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