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English
Etymology
From Middle English apprentice, apprentesse, apprentyse, apprentis, from Old French aprentis, plural of aprentif, from Old French aprendre (verb), Late Latin apprendō, from Classical Latin apprehendō.
Pronunciation
Noun
apprentice (plural apprentices)
- A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.
1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 163:To this end a well-equipped and keenly-run apprentice training school has been in operation at Eastleigh since 1958 and here apprentices are given a good grounding in a number of trades, followed by a thorough training in the trade to which they become allocated.
2022 December 14, “Network News: A pipeline of work key for apprentices”, in RAIL, number 972, page 17:Scottish rail suppliers have told the Government that they can only reach their target of employing 500 apprentices if they are given a clear pipeline of work, rather than having to endure the current stop-go programme.
- (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.
- (dated) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.
Derived terms
Translations
trainee, especially in a skilled trade
- Albanian: çirak (sq) m
- Arabic: مُبْتَدِئ m (mubtadiʔ), مُبْتَدِئَة f (mubtadiʔa), تِلْمِيذ m (tilmīḏ), تِلْمِيذَة f (tilmīḏa)
- Armenian: աշակերտ (hy) (ašakert)
- Azerbaijani: şagird (az)
- Bashkir: өйрәнсек
- Belarusian: падма́йстар m (padmájstar), падма́йстарка f (padmájstarka), ву́чань m (vúčanʹ), вучані́ца f (vučaníca)
- Bulgarian: чира́к m (čirák), чира́чка f (čiráčka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 學徒/学徒 (zh) (xuétú)
- Crimean Tatar: şıraq
- Czech: učeň m (trainee, especially in a skilled trade), učnice f
- Danish: lærling (da) c
- Dutch: leerjongen (nl) m, leermeisje n, gezel (nl) m
- Estonian: õpipoiss
- Finnish: harjoittelija (fi), ammattioppilas
- French: apprenti (fr) m
- Galician: aprendiz (gl) m
- Georgian: ქარგალი (kargali), შეგირდი (šegirdi)
- German: Lehrling (de) m, Auszubildender (de) m, Auszubildende (de) f, Azubi (de) m or f
- Greek: μαθητευόμενος (el) m (mathitevómenos)
- Hindi: शागिर्द (hi) m (śāgird), शिष्य (hi) m (śiṣya)
- Hungarian: tanuló (hu), segéd (hu), gyakornok (hu), tanonc (hu), (archaic) inas (hu), szakiskolás
- Icelandic: lærlingur (is) m
- Italian: apprendista (it) m, bardotto (it) m
- Japanese: 見習い (ja) (みならい, minarai), 実習生 (じっしゅうせい, jisshūsei), (historical) 徒弟 (ja) (とてい, totei)
- Kazakh: шәкірт (şäkırt), оқушы (oquşy)
- Korean: 견습생(見習生) (gyeonseupsaeng), 도제(徒弟) (doje)
- Kyrgyz: үйрөнчүк (ky) (üyröncük), окуучу (ky) (okuucu)
- Latin: discipulus (la) m
- Latvian: māceklis m
- Lithuanian: mokinys m, mokinė f
- Macedonian: чирак m (čirak), чирачка f (čiračka) (higher level), калфа m (kalfa) (lower level)
- Malay: perantis
- Maltese: apprendist m, apprendista f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lærling m, læregutt m
- Nynorsk: lærling m, læregut m
- Ottoman Turkish: شاگرد (şagird), چراق (çırak), اوشاق (uşak)
- Persian: شاگِرْد (fa) (šâgerd), میلاو (fa) (milâv) (archaic)
- Polish: uczeń (pl) m, uczennica (pl) f, terminator (pl) m (obsolete), adept (pl) m, adeptka (pl) f
- Portuguese: aprendiz (pt)
- Romanian: ucenic (ro) m, ucenică (ro) f
- Russian: учени́к (ru) m (učeník), учени́ца (ru) f (učeníca), (historical) подмасте́рье (ru) m (podmastérʹje)
- Scottish Gaelic: preantas m, foghlamaiche m, tàilleabhach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: шѐгрт m
- Roman: šègrt (sh) m
- Slovak: učeň m, učnica f
- Slovene: vajenec (sl) m, vajenka f
- Spanish: aprendiz (es) m
- Swedish: lärling (sv) c
- Tagalog: aralan
- Tajik: шогирд (tg) (šogird), милов (milov)
- Tatar: шәкерт (tt) (şäkert)
- Thai: ผู้ฝึกงาน (pûu-fʉ̀k-ngaan)
- Turkish: çırak (tr), öğrenci (tr), bılız (tr) (dialectal), calçı (tr) (dialectal)
- Turkmen: okuwçy, şägirt
- Ukrainian: підма́йстер m (pidmájster), підма́йстерка f (pidmájsterka), у́чень (uk) m (účenʹ), учени́ця (uk) f (učenýcja)
- Urdu: شاگِرْد m (śāgird), تِلْمِیذ m (tilmīz)
- Uyghur: شاگىرت (shagirt), ئوقۇغۇچى (ug) (oqughuchi)
- Uzbek: shogird (uz), xalfa (uz), oʻquvchi (uz)
- Vietnamese: người học nghề
- Yiddish: לערנייִנגל n (lernyingl), געזעל m (gezel)
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historical: one who is bound to serve a tradesperson with a view to learn his art or trade
one not well versed in a subject
— see newbie
See also
Verb
apprentice (third-person singular simple present apprentices, present participle apprenticing, simple past and past participle apprenticed)
- (transitive) To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.
He was apprenticed to a local employer.
- (transitive) To be an apprentice to.
Joe apprenticed three different photographers before setting up his own studio.
Translations
put under the care and supervision of a master
References