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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order);
[syn: novitiate, noviciate]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

noviciate
    n 1: the period during which you are a novice (especially in a
         religious order) [syn: novitiate, noviciate]