novice Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
novitiate.
noun someone new to a field or activity
tyro; initiate; beginner; tiro.

F., from L. novicius, novitius, new, from novus new. See New, and cf. Novitious.

One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
I am young; a novice in the trade. Dryden.
One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. 1 Tim. iii. 6.
(Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley.
No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer.