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Definition of novice : 1. Like a novice; becoming a novice.
2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.
3. One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.
4. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

Synonyms:

novitiate, connoisseur, savant, fledgling, abecedarian, study at amateur, founder, postulant, freshman, enlightened, critic, pundit, start, noviciate, tenderfoot, tyro, rookie, religion, founding father, learned person, tiro, learner

nonprofessional, incompetent, apprentice, unprofessional, dilettante, beginner, layman, greenhorn, inexperienced, primitive, initiate, neophyte, amateur, unskilled, lay person

monk, pilgrim, abbess, pope, minister, reverend, cleric, chaplain, archdeacon, ecclesiastic, nun, curate, father, friar, prioress, priest, evangelist, canon, vicar, sister, clergyman, abbot, rector, archbishop, bishop, archpriest, prior, missionary, prelate, cardinal, canoness, pastor, brother, preacher

Usage examples:

• He had not been on horseback for more than ten years, and as soon as he mounted, every one saw that he was a novice, and a smile was on the countenance of each member of the company. - "Clotelle The Colored Heroine", William Wells Brown.
• He once said to a novice in public life, " If you want to be a politician, for mercy's sake do not look more than a week ahead." - "Cavour", Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco.
• I began to stammer like a novice taken in a wrong. - "Dwellers in the Hills", Melville Davisson Post.