different between scholar vs novice

English

Etymology

From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English sc?lere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin schol?ris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school +? -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German sch?lære, sch?lere, sch?ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Doublet of escolar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)

Noun

scholar (plural scholars)

1. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
2. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
3. A learned person; a bookman.

Synonyms

• (student): pupil, student
• (specialist): expert, specialist
• (learned person): academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite

Derived terms

Related terms

• scholiast

Translations

See also

• savant

Further reading

• scholar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scholar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• chorals, lorchas, orchals

English

Etymology

From Middle English novice, novys, from Anglo-Norman novice, Middle French novice, itself borrowed from Latin nov?cius, later novitius (“new, newly arrived”) (in Late Latin as a noun, masculine novicius, feminine novicia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”)), from novus (“new”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?v?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n??v?s/

Noun

novice (plural novices)

1. A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject. [from 14th c.]

   I'm only a novice at coding, and my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers would avoid.

3. (religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation. [from 14th c.]
   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), page 1137:

     Nor had it been difficult to find a Coptic priest who, together with his youthful novice, chanted the seemingly interminable Egyptian service of the dead […]

Synonyms

• (person new to an activity): amateur, greenhorn, learner, neophyte, newbie, newling
• See also Thesaurus:beginner

Related terms

• novel
• novelization
• novelize
• novella
• novelty
• novitiate

Translations

Further reading

• novice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• novice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• novice at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• nocive

French

Etymology

From Middle French novice, from Old French novice, borrowed from Late Latin nov?cius, nov?cia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”), from Latin nov?cius, nov?tius (“new, newly arrived”), from novus (“new”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?.vis/

Noun

novice m or f (plural novices)

1. beginner, novice

Adjective

novice (plural novices)

1. inexperienced

Further reading

• “novice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French novice, borrowed from Late Latin nov?cius, nov?cia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”), from Latin nov?cius, nov?tius (“new, newly arrived”), from novus (“new”).

Noun

novice m or f (plural novices)

1. (Jersey) novice

Romanian

Etymology

From French novice.

Noun

novice m (plural novici)

1. novice

Declension