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/ˈfɹɛʃ.mən/ · noun
(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.
At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.
When he was but yet a freshman in Cambridge.
Sir Alexander: Then he's a graduate. Sir Davy: Say they trust him not? Sir Alexander: Then is he held a freshman and a sot,¶ And never shall commence, but being still barr'd¶ Be expuls'd from the master's side to th' twopenny ward,¶ Or else i' th' hole be plac'd.
As a country, we now enter what the seven freshmen called “unchartered waters”, with an unprecedented political and constitutional crisis looming on the horizon.
Trump may have played a role in swaying some holdouts — calling into a meeting of Republican freshmen the night before, and calling other members ahead of voting.
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.
Use freshman 15 when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Freshman 15 means (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.
Common synonyms include fresher, frosh, freshie, grade nine student.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.
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