novice
nounEtymology
From Middle English novice, novys, from Anglo-Norman novice, Middle French novice, itself borrowed from Latin novīcius, later novitius (“new, newly arrived”) (in Late Latin as a noun, masculine novicius, feminine novicia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”)), from novus (“new”).
Definitions
A beginner
A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
- I'm only a novice at coding, and my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers would avoid.
A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.
- Nor had it been difficult to find a Coptic priest who, together with his youthful novice, chanted the seemingly interminable Egyptian service of the dead […]
Of a beginner
Of a beginner; unfamiliar or unexperienced in a particular subject.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at novice. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at novice. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at novice
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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