apprentice

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to be or work as an apprentice

   They apprenticed with the great master.

2. 2
   noun

   A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

   To this end a well-equipped and keenly-run apprentice training school has been in operation at Eastleigh since 1958 and here apprentices are given a good grounding in a number of trades, followed by a thorough training in the trade to which they become allocated.

3. 3
   verb

   To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

   His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.

4. 4
   verb

   To be an apprentice to.

   Joe apprenticed three different photographers before setting up his own studio.

5. 5
   noun

   works for an expert to learn a trade

6. 6
   noun

   One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a tradesperson, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

7. 7
   noun

   One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.

Etymology

From Middle English apprentice, apprentesse, apprentyse, apprentis, from Old French aprentis, plural of aprentif, from Old French aprendre (verb), Late Latin apprendō, from Classical Latin apprehendō. Compare typologically Latin discipulus (akin to capiō); Russian схва́тывать на лету́ (sxvátyvatʹ na letú), and for another aspect быть на подхва́те (bytʹ na podxváte) (both akin to хвата́ть (xvatátʹ).