apprenticeship

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.

   There, however, he had disappointed expectation. In sooth, his genius was of too creative an order for the apprenticeship of learning; he needed life in its hopes, its fears, its endurance; all that the poet learns to reproduce.

2. 2
   noun

   the position of apprentice

3. 3
   noun

   The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.

Etymology

From apprentice + -ship.