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A novitiate is the period when someone is a novice — a beginner. The word is used most often in a religious community, such as a monastery or a . During this time the person lives with the group, learns the rules, and is not yet a full member. It can also mean the house or rooms where those beginners live. It is a formal, rather churchy word. Outside religion people more often say “training period”. Though actually English uses novice for any beginner (a novice driver, a novice cook), but novitiate almost always keeps that official, often religious, flavour.
初學期（天主教修會用語；也指當新手、見習的那段期間）
組成First attested in 1517. Either borrowed from Middle French noviciat / novitiat, or from Medieval Latin noviciātus / novitiātus, from Latin novicius / novitius + -ātus (a suffix for a rank, office, or state), from novus, “new”.
同家族的字
- novicethe beginner; the novitiate is the period — or the place — of being one
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
novitiatenoun/nəˈvɪʃi.ət/
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A novice.
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The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training.
- Three weeks after the departure of the Mandevilles, all Naples flocked to witness the profession of a young Englishwoman, a dispensation having been obtained for the novitiate.
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The place where a novice lives and studies.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。