novice
/ˈnɑvɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
noun
A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.
adj
Of a beginner; unfamiliar or unexperienced in a particular subject.
Example Sentences
- "I'm only a novice at coding, so my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers would avoid."
- "We made a redstone system earlier, but Stump was behind that. He had to help me explain it when I was writing about it in here. And that system wasn't very complicated, by the way. Not nearly as complex as some of the things I've seen the humans make. Stump may be ahead of me in this regard, but compared to the humans he's a super novice."
- "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 […]"
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnɑvɪs/
- British English: /ˈnɒvɪs/