3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

freshman

adjective: used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college" [syn: {first-year}]

noun

1: a first-year undergraduate [syn: {fresher}]

2: any new participant in some activity [syn: {newcomer}, {fledgling}, {fledgeling}, {starter}, {neophyte}, {newbie}, {entrant}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Freshman \Fresh"man\, noun; pl. {Freshmen}. A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.

Syn: frosh.

He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. --Goldsmith.

{Freshman class}, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "freshman": abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, cadet, catechumen, colt, deb, debutant, entrant, fledgling, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee, infant, initiate, junior, learner, midshipman, neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, plebe, postulant, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, senior, soph, sophomore, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, undergrad, undergraduate, upperclassman

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