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n. A person new to a field or activity; a beginner.

n. A person who has entered a religious order but has not yet taken final vows. Also called novitiate.

n. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

n. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

n. One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.

adj. Like a novice; becoming a novice.

n. One who is new to the circumstances in which he or she is placed; a beginner in anything; an inexperienced or untried person.

n. Specifically A monk or nun who has newly entered one of the orders, and is still in a state of probation, subject to the superior of the convent and the discipline of the house, but bound by no permanent monastic vows; a probationer. The term of probation differs in different religious communities, but is regularly at least one year.

Having the character of a beginner, or one new to the practice of anything; inexperienced; also, characteristic of or befitting a novice.

n. In bench shows and other similar exhibitions, an animal which has not before been exhibited for a prize.

n. In athletics, one who has not won a prize, when the competition is open to members of two or more clubs.

n. someone new to a field or activity

n. someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

"In the late 1930s and 1940s, Dorothy Snell, as she was then known, competed and won medals at the national level in novice, junior and senior competitions."

religious person   

beginner    tyro    newbie    greenhorn    learner    amateur    neophyte   

beginner    nun    amateur    apprentice    monk    cadet    disciple    pupil    inexperienced    pilgrim