Word Study
noviciate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun noviciate has 1 sense
- noviciate(n = noun.time) novitiate - the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order); Array is a kind of period, period of time, time period
OXFORD DICTIONARY
noviciate, n. (also novitiate)
1 the period of being a novice.
2 a religious novice.
3 novices' quarters.
1 the period of being a novice.
2 a religious novice.
3 novices' quarters.
Etymology
F noviciat or med.L noviciatus (as NOVICE)
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