novice

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
novice
    n 1: someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken
         final vows [syn: {novitiate}, {novice}]
    2: someone new to a field or activity [syn: {novice},
       {beginner}, {tyro}, {tiro}, {initiate}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Novice \Nov"ice\, n. [F., from L. novicius, novitius, new, from
   novus new. See {New}, and cf. {Novitious}.]
   1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling;
      one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a
      beginner; a tyro.
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            I am young; a novice in the trade.    --Dryden.
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   2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted
      to the Christian faith. --1 Tim. iii. 6.
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   3. (Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks
      or nuns, as a probationist. --Shipley.
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            No poore cloisterer, nor no novys.    --Chaucer.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Novice \Nov"ice\, a.
   Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]
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from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Novice, TX (city, FIPS 52668)
  Location: 31.98746 N, 99.62494 W
  Population (1990): 183 (101 housing units)
  Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 79538
from U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Novice, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
   Population (2000):    142
   Housing Units (2000): 65
   Land area (2000):     0.451929 sq. miles (1.170491 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.451929 sq. miles (1.170491 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            52668
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             31.988664 N, 99.625334 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     79538
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Novice, TX
    Novice
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "novice":
      abbess, abecedarian, alphabetarian, amateur, apprentice,
      articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, canoness, catechumen,
      clergywoman, colt, conventual, cub, deb, debutant, entrant,
      fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee,
      infant, initiate, lady superior, learner, mother superior,
      neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novitiate, nun, postulant,
      prentice, prioress, probationer, probationist, proselyte, punk,
      raw recruit, recruit, religieuse, rookie, secular canoness, sister,
      student, superioress, tenderfoot, the reverend mother, trainee,
      tyro, undergraduate
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