Noun: novice
| Singular | novice |
| Plural | novices |
Sample Sentences
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I'm only a novice at coding, so my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers would avoid.
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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 […] [1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), page 1137]
Nouns inflected like novice
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
novice', Latin Nouns '
novīcius'.