Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun noviciate

1 sense of noviciate

Sense 1
novitiate, noviciate -- (the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order))
       => time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")