novice
Valid in Scrabble
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- 11
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- 14
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- 6
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Definition of novice
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
“I'm only a novice at coding, and my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers would avoid.”
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noun
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A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
“I'm only a novice at coding, and my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers would avoid.”
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A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.
“Nor had it been difficult to find a Coptic priest who, together with his youthful novice, chanted the seemingly interminable Egyptian service of the dead […]”
adj
- Of a beginner; unfamiliar or unexperienced in a particular subject.
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Etymology
From Middle English novice, novys, from Anglo-Norman novice, Middle French novice, itself borrowed from Latin novīcius, later novitius (“new, newly arrived”) (in Late Latin as a noun, masculine novicius, feminine novicia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”)), from novus (“new”).
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