apprentice
/əˈpɹɛntɪs/ noun C1- A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.
- 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.
- One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.
Plural apprentices
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Elara, a diligent apprentice with an extraordinary talent for spatial precision, stared intently at the magnificent parchment spread across her mahogany desk.
Turning toward his anxious apprentice, a rare and genuine smile softened the usually stern lines of his weathered face.
Before Samuel Langhorne Clemens became an internationally celebrated literary luminary, he was an apprentice pilot navigating the capricious currents of the Mississippi River.
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