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View synonyms for freshman

freshman

[ fresh-muhn ]

noun

, plural fresh·men.
  1. a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
  2. a novice; beginner.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman:

    to outgrow one's freshman attitudes.

  2. lacking seniority or experience; junior:

    a freshman senator.

  3. required of or suitable for freshmen:

    freshman courses.

  4. initial; first:

    This is my freshman year with the company.

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Gender Note

See -man.

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Other Words From

  • freshman·ship noun
  • pre·freshman noun plural prefreshmen
  • sub·freshman noun plural subfreshmen

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Word History and Origins

Origin of freshman1

First recorded in 1540–50; fresh + -man

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Example Sentences

But the show is inoffensively good, which is high praise in a pretty terrible year for freshman TV series.

“There was a lot of stuff that I had never really thought about before,” freshman Thomas Long said.

More than 40 percent of incoming freshman said that a campus visit and social activities affected their choice.

Despite performing in a respectable amount of sketches for a SNL freshman throughout the season, her contract was not renewed.

“Ted Cruz, Team Player” is a twist few saw coming from the freshman who has made too many enemies to count in Washington.

The folks that know it all are the squabs, chuckled Bobby, referring to the freshman class.

When I was a freshman, there entered a woman over fifty, with perfectly white hair.

It was, perhaps, the sympathy in her tone that urged the instructor to confide her trouble to a strange girl—a freshman, at that!

The other Briarwood girls were the only members of the freshman class Ruth was likely to be intimate with for some days.

But for a freshman to show sufficient athletic training to make any of the first teams, would almost seem impossible.

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