Definition of Freshman
1. Noun. A first-year undergraduate.
2. Adjective. Used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college). "Freshman year in high school or college"
Geographical relationships: America, The States, U.s., U.s.a., United States, United States Of America, Us, Usa
Similar to: First
3. Noun. Any new participant in some activity.
Generic synonyms: Beginner, Initiate, Novice, Tiro, Tyro
Specialized synonyms: Enlistee, Recruit
Derivative terms: Fledgling, Start, Start
Definition of Freshman
1. n. A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a college or university.
Definition of Freshman
1. Noun. (obsolete) A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge. ¹
2. Noun. (American English) A person of either sex entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade), a university, or legislative body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Freshman
1. a first-year student [n FRESHMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freshman
Literary usage of Freshman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1915)
"At the average freshman course in German ?- 4. At the average freshman course in
Greek? ... (In answering 6, 7, 8, if there is no freshman course under your ..."
2. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Birdseye, Clarence F., 1854-1927 (1907)
"A freshman shall not play with any members of an upper class, ... “In case of
personal insult, a Junior may call up a freshman and reprehend him. ..."
3. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1856)
"No freshman shall laugh in his Senior's face. " 6. No freshman shall ask his ...
Freshmen are to take notice that a Senior Sophister can take a freshman ..."
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