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sophomore

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soph⋅o⋅more

  [sof-uh-mawr, -mohr; sof-mawr, -mohr]
–noun
1. a student in the second year of high school or college.
2. a person or group in the second year of any endeavor: He's a sophomore on Wall Street.
–adjective
3. of or pertaining to a sophomore.
4. of or being a second effort or second version: Their sophomore album was even better than their first.
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Origin:
1645–55; earlier sophumer, prob. equiv. to sophum sophism + -er 1
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soph·o·more   (sŏf'ə-môr', sŏf'môr')   
n.  

    1. A second-year student in a U.S. college.

    2. A tenth-grade student in a U.S. high school.

  2. A person in the second year of carrying out an endeavor.

adj.  

  1. Of or relating to the second year of an endeavor, especially of attending a school or college.

  2. Being the second in a series: a singer's sophomore album.


[Alteration (probably influenced by Greek sophos, wise, and mōros, stupid) of sophumer, from obsolete sophom, sophism, dialectic exercise, variant of sophism.]
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Word Origin & History

sophomore 
1688, "student in the second year of university study," lit. "arguer," altered from sophumer (1653, from sophume, archaic variant form of sophism), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Gk. sophos "wise" + moros "foolish, dull." Short form soph is attested from 1778. Sophomoric "characteristic of a sophomore" (regarded as self-assured and opinionated but crude and immature) is attested from 1837.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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