- postulant
- Synonyms and related words:abbess, abecedarian, alphabetarian, applicant, apprentice, articled clerk, aspirant, beginner, bidder, boot, candidate, canoness, catechumen, claimant, clergywoman, conventual, debutant, entrant, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, ignoramus, inductee, initiate, lady superior, mother superior, neophyte, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, nun, petitioner, prioress, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, religieuse, rookie, secular canoness, seeker, sister, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, superioress, suppliant, supplicant, tenderfoot, the reverend mother, tyro
Moby Thesaurus. Grady Ward. 1996.