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APPRENTICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Works for an expert to learn a trade
Synonyms:
Classified under:
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)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they apprentice ... he / she / it apprentices
Past simple: apprenticed
Past participle: apprenticed
-ing form: apprenticing
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)
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)
