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sophomore

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soph⋅o⋅more

  [sof-uh-mawr, -mohr; sof-mawr, -mohr]
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–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.
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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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