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freshman

[fresh-muhn] Origin

fresh·man

[fresh-muhn] noun, plural -men, adjective
noun
1.
a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
2.
a novice; beginner.
adjective
3.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a freshman: to outgrow one's freshman attitudes.
4.
lacking seniority or experience; junior: a freshman senator.
5.
required of or suitable for freshmen: freshman courses.
6.
initial; first: This is my freshman year with the company.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1540–50; fresh + -man

fresh·man·ship, noun
pre·fresh·man, noun, plural -men.
sub·fresh·man, noun, plural -men.


See -man.

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fresher or freshman (ˈfrɛʃə, ˈfrɛʃmən)
 
n , pl -ers, -men
a first-year student at college or university
 
freshman or freshman
 
n

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freshman
mid-16c., "newcomer, novice," from fresh (1) + man (n.). Sense of "university student in first year" is attested from 1590s. Related: Freshmen.
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