What does Prentice mean?

Definitions for Prentice
ˈprɛn tɪspren·tice

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. apprentice, learner, prenticenoun

    works for an expert to learn a trade

Wiktionary

  1. prenticenoun

    An apprentice.

  2. prenticeverb

    To apprentice.

  3. Etymology: From prentice, an old () aphetic form of apprentice, with the apostrophe added to indicate the lost letters.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. PRENTICEnoun

    One bound to a master, in order to instruction in a trade.

    Etymology: contracted, by colloquial licence, from apprentice.

    My accuser is my prentice, and when I did correct him for his fault, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

Wikipedia

  1. Prentice

    Prentice is both a given name and a surname.

ChatGPT

  1. prentice

    A prentice, more commonly spelled as "apprentice," is a person who is learning a trade or skill from a skilled employer, often for a set period, while getting a low wage or none at all. It's a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a profession or craft.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Prenticenoun

    an apprentice

  2. Etymology: [Aphetic form of apprentice.]

Wikidata

  1. Prentice

    Prentice is a village in Price County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 660 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Prentice.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Prentice

    pren′tis, n. Short for apprentice.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PRENTICE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Prentice is ranked #4505 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Prentice surname appeared 7,874 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Prentice.

    83.7% or 6,598 total occurrences were White.
    9.1% or 722 total occurrences were Black.
    3% or 241 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.2% or 179 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 83 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.6% or 51 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Prentice in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Prentice in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Prentice in a Sentence

  1. Duane Bratt:

    It may be too early to write a political obituary for Jim Prentice but clearly he's worried, there's a reason most governments don't run an election on a bad news budget, a budget where they raised taxes for the first time since the 1980s.

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