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novitiate

Syllables: no·vi·ti·ate/nəˈvɪʃi.ət/

novitiate noun: a novice.

Noun

novitiate (plural novitiates)

  1. A novice.
  2. The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training.
    • Three weeks after the departure of the Mandevilles, all Naples flocked to witness the profession of a young Englishwoman, a dispensation having been obtained for the novitiate.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 214
  3. The place where a novice lives and studies.

novitiate meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

novitiate in Tamil

தொடக்க நிலையாளர் பயிற்சிபெறும் காலம், தொடக்க நிலையாளர் பயிற்சிபெறும் இடம்

novitiate in Urdu

نو امیدواری

novitiate in Malayalam

trial period, probationary period, probation
നവദീക്ഷ, സാധനാകാലം, പരിശീലനകാലം, പ്രാരംഭപരിശീല ഘട്ടം, പരീക്ഷണകാലഘട്ടം, തൊഴിലഭ്യാസം
neophyte, novice, postulant
പ്രാരംഭകൻ, തുടക്കക്കാരൻ, നൂതനമതാവലംബി, പുതുക്രിസ്ത്യാനി, പുത്തൻകൂറ്റുകാരൻ, മഠത്തിൽചേരാൻ പോകുന്നയാൾ

Forms of novitiate

pluralnovitiates

Origin of novitiate

First attested in 1517; either borrowed from Middle French noviciat, novitiat or from Medieval Latin noviciātus, novitiātus (“a novitiate”), from Latin novicius, novitius + -ātus (see -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank or office)), from novus (“new”). Sense 1 is not attested in cognates.

Words formed from novitiate

Questions about novitiate

What does novitiate mean?
Novitiate means a novice.
What is novitiate in Tamil?
Novitiate in Tamil is தொடக்க நிலையாளர் பயிற்சிபெறும் காலம், தொடக்க நிலையாளர் பயிற்சிபெறும் இடம். See Novitiate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is novitiate?
Novitiate is a noun.
How do you pronounce novitiate?
Novitiate is pronounced /nəˈvɪʃi.ət/.
What is the plural of novitiate?
The plural of novitiate is novitiates.

Words near novitiate in the dictionary

  1. Novingers
  2. novirhabdovirus
  3. novirhabdoviruses
  4. novis
  5. novitial
  6. novitiate
  7. novitiates
  8. novitiateship
  9. novitiation
  10. novitiations
  11. novities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: novitiate (page history and authors); novitiate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); novitiate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); novitiate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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