n. 25B6; noun
a five-day course for novices : BEGINNER, learner, neophyte, newcomer, initiate, tyro, fledgling; apprentice, trainee, probationer, student, pupil; N. Amer. tenderfoot; informal rookie, newie, newbie; N. Amer. informal greenhorn.
a novice who was never ordained : NEOPHYTE, novitiate; postulant, proselyte, catechumen.
expert, veteran.