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freshman
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun freshman has 2 senses
- freshman(n = noun.person) fresher - a first-year undergraduate; Array is a kind of lowerclassman, underclassman
- freshman(n = noun.person) entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter - any new participant in some activity; Array is a kind of beginner, initiate, novice, tiro, tyro
has particulars: enlistee, recruit
Adjective freshman has 1 sense
- freshman(s = adj.all) first-year - 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
freshman, n.
A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university. [1913 Webster]
"He drank his glass and cracked his joke,
And freshmen wondered as he spoke." [1913 Webster]
And freshmen wondered as he spoke." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
freshman, n. (pl. -men) a first-year student at university or US at high school.
THESAURUS
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, upperclassmanROGET THESAURUS
freshman
Learner
N learner, scholar, student, pupil, apprentice, prentice, journeyman, articled clerk, beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur, abecedarian, alphabetarian, alumnus, eleve, recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer, seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner, debutant, intern, resident, schoolboy, fresh, freshman, frosh, junior soph, junior, senior soph, senior, sophister, sophomore, questionist, undergraduate, graduate student, law student, medical student, pre-med, post-doctoral student, post-doc, matriculated student, part-time student, night student, auditor, class, grade, seminar, form, remove, pupilage, disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte, fellow-student, condisciple, school, in statu pupillari, in leading strings, practise makes perfect.
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