catechumen

noun

Definition of catechumennext
as in novice

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  1. novice
  2. newcomer
  3. recruit
  4. novitiate
Noun
  • Only novices believe that a system will work flawlessly.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Entering the retail space as novices forced these bottle shop owners to face a steep learning curve.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of novice
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  • Torres is a newcomer to the Golden Globes — and may also be so for American audiences.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In a year that saw Miami-Dade County’s mayor and commissioners raise $11 million for their political committees, no individual gave more than a Miami newcomer: billionaire Ken Griffin.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of newcomer
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  • Precise figures are difficult to verify, but it’s estimated that the Israeli Army has more than four thousand soldiers of French nationality, the second-largest contingent of foreign recruits.
    Annie Hylton, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
  • McCain emerged as a consensus five-star recruit out of Centennial High School in Corona, California.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of recruit
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  • There was another case involving 2024’s Immaculate and The First Omen, and both films deal with two young American novitiates whose bodily autonomy is forcibly taken away in the most disturbing ways imaginable.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2024
  • In a retreat focused on the Virgin Mary held one month before the group was to enter the novitiate, the Mistress of Postulants told them that the 10 months of the postulancy are like the months of pregnancy—that the postulants were, in a very real spiritual sense, gestating Jesus in their wombs.
    Rebecca J. Lester, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
Definition of novitiate
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