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US
/ˈnɑvəs/
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[ UK /nˈɒvɪs/ ]
[ UK /nˈɒvɪs/ ]
NOUN
- someone new to a field or activity
- someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
How To Use novice In A Sentence
- And there was some consolation for the connections of Limestone Lad when Solerina won the novice hurdle.
- He ended up losing to Michael Burgess, a medical doctor and political novice.
- The book will probably be more attractive to Durkheim specialists and graduate students than to novices in the field.
- A useful novice chaser two seasons ago, the Ferdy Murphy-trained gelding showed all of his old sparkle as he took the spoils.
- I was afraid of sewing from a pattern when I was a novice seamster, ironically, but now that I sew well, I enjoy using patterns to create more complicated clothing with attractive detailing and sophisticated elements. Oliver + S Releases Free Downloadable Pattern
- She is bound to the rules and the choir, but not to the private recitation of the Divine Office; she can take part in chapters, except in those in which others are admitted to vows; she cannot be elected superior, mother-vicaress, mistress of novices, assistant, counsellor, or treasurer. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- The St. Katharinenthal novice Kathrin Brümsin was taught the text to all twenty-four verses of the sequence Verbum dei by Saint John the Evangelist in a dream-vision. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
- Whoever made the original choice of plants did a splendid job, leaving us a mix of marginals, surface-leaved and submerged oxygenating plants, all of which I would highly recommend to fellow novice pond keepers.
- He then requests the ten basic vows of a novice monk and repeats each as it is recited to him.
- The pro championship will be replaced by an amateur event in which stunt novices compete against each other on their own bikes.