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Webster 1913 Edition


Prentice

Pren′tice

,
Noun.
[Aphetic form of
apprentice
.]
An apprentice.
[Obs. or Colloq.]
Piers Plowman.
“My accuser is my prentice.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prentice

PRENTICE

, a colloquial contraction of apprentice, which see.

Definition 2024


Prentice

Prentice

See also: prentice and 'prentice

English

Proper noun

Prentice

  1. An occupational surname.

prentice

prentice

See also: Prentice and 'prentice

English

Noun

prentice (plural prentices)

  1. (obsolete) An apprentice.
    • 1682, John Lacy, Sir Hercules Buffoon, or The Poetical Squire, Act II, scene iv,
      Faith, bind him prentice to a lord; by the same rule he'll be a lord when he's out of his time.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To apprentice.

Synonyms