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'prentice

'prentice noun: apheretic form of apprentice.

Noun

'prentice (plural 'prentices)

  1. (obsolete) Apheretic form of apprentice.
    • "You're going to be made a 'prentice of, Oliver."1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Oliver Twist

Verb

'prentice (third-person singular simple present 'prentices, present participle 'prenticing, simple past and past participle 'prenticed)

  1. (obsolete) Apheretic form of apprentice.
    • Two thousand a-year without debt or drawback — except for the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify?1811, Jane Austen, chapter 30, in Sense and Sensibility
    Synonyms:
    apprentice, prentice

Synonyms of 'prentice

Forms of 'prentice

Noun
plural'prentices
Verb
third-person singular present'prentices
present participle'prenticing
past participle'prenticed
past'prenticed

Origin of 'prentice

From prentice, an old (Middle English) apheretic form of apprentice, with the apostrophe added to indicate the lost letters.

Questions about 'prentice

What does 'prentice mean?
'prentice means apheretic form of apprentice.
What part of speech is 'prentice?
'prentice can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of 'prentice?
The plural of 'prentice is 'prentices.

Words near 'prentice in the dictionary

  1. 'preciate
  2. 'preciated
  3. 'preciates
  4. 'preciating
  5. 'preciation
  6. 'prentice
  7. 'prenticed
  8. 'prentices
  9. 'prenticing
  10. 'puter
  11. 'puters

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