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prentice

[ pren-tis ]

/ ˈprɛn tɪs /

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noun, verb Informal.

apprentice.

Origin of prentice

1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice

OTHER WORDS FROM prentice

un·der·pren·tice, noun

Words nearby prentice

prenomen, prenominal, prenominate, prenotification, prenotion, prentice, prenuclear, prenup, prenuptial, prenuptial agreement, preoccupancy

Definition for prentice (2 of 2)

Prentice

[ pren-tis ]

/ ˈprɛn tɪs /

noun

a male given name.

Example sentences from the Web for prentice

“During the dry season, women ate more green leafy vegetables,” Prentice said.

How Famines Make Future Generations Fat |Carrie Arnold |May 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The witnesses on the side of the petition were a butcher woman, a barber's 'prentice, and two or three other inferior people.

Old and New London |Walter Thornbury
I shall not wonder if I come to be cousin to a cordwainer's 'prentice yet!

Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) |Jonathon Holt Ingraham
Mrs. Prentice told Jess that she could pay for the coal a little at a time, and the girl gladly availed herself of this advantage.

The Girls of Central High on the Stage |Gertrude W. Morrison

Mr. Prentice chimed in boisterously from the bottom of the table.

Mrs. Thompson |William Babington Maxwell
Mr. Prentice has a delightful method of blending fact with fiction.

With the Swamp Fox |James Otis

British Dictionary definitions for prentice

prentice

/ (ˈprɛntɪs) /

noun

an archaic word for apprentice