Freshman

Quick meaning: Freshman is a noun meaning (US, Canada, Philippines) a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body.

Meaning

(US, Canada, Philippines) a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) a novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge

Example Sentences

When he was but yet a freshman in Cambridge.

At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.

I am but a Freshman yet in France, therefore I can send you no News but that all is here quiet, and 'tis no ordinary News that the French should be quiet.

As a country, we now enter what the seven freshmen called “unchartered waters”, with an unprecedented political and constitutional crisis looming on the horizon.

Word Forms

• freshmen

Synonyms for freshman

Depending on context, synonyms include fresher, frosh, freshie, neophyte, fledgling, first.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include neophyte, newcomer, fledgeling, fledgling, first, entrant.

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