apprenticeship

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ap=pren=tice=ship

CIDE DICTIONARY

apprenticeship, n. 

•  The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.  [1913 Webster]
•  The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

apprenticeship

basic training, binding over, breaking, breeding, conditioning, cultivation, development, discipline, drill, drilling, exercise, fetching-up, fostering, grooming, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, indenture, manual training, military training, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, practice, preparation, raising, readying, rearing, rehearsal, sloyd, training, upbringing, vocational education, vocational training

ROGET THESAURUS

apprenticeship

Learning

N learning, acquisition of knowledge &c, acquisition of skill, acquirement, attainment, edification, scholarship, erudition, acquired knowledge, lore, wide information, self-instruction, study, reading, perusal, inquiry, apprenticeship, prenticeship, pupilage, pupilarity, tutelage, novitiate, matriculation, docility, aptitude, studious, scholastic, scholarly, teachable, docile, apt &c, industrious, at one's books, in statu pupillari, a lumber-house of books in every head, ancora imparo!, hold high converse with the mighty dead, lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.