Definition: someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
Similar words: religious person
Definition: a person who manifests devotion to a deity
Synonyms: noviciate, novitiate
Definition: the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)
Similar words: time period, period, period of time
Definition: an amount of time
Usage: a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period