Definition of Novice

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Novice

One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.

Like a novice; becoming a novice.

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Novice Quotations

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas de Chamfort

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.
Frank Shorter

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
James Stockdale

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.
Charisma Carpenter

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.
Bill Budge

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Andrea Mitchell

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.
Lawrence Kasdan

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
Adelbert von Chamisso

Novice Translations

novice in Afrikaans is nuweling
novice in Dutch is nieuweling, novice
novice in Italian is principiante
novice in Spanish is novato, principiante
novice in Swedish is novis

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