Apprentice vs. Novice — What's the Difference?

One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.

A novice is a person who has entered a religious order and is under probation, before taking vows. By extension, the term is used informally for a person or animal new to a particular field of endeavour.

One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.

A person new to and inexperienced in a job or situation

A beginner; a learner.

A person who has entered a religious order and is under probation, before taking vows.

To work as an apprentice

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

To engage as an apprentice

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

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.

(historical) 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.

(religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.

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

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

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

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

(transitive) To be an apprentice to.

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

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, 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.

Like a novice; becoming a novice.

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

Someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.

Someone new to a field or activity

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

Works for an expert to learn a trade

Be or work as an apprentice;

In training;