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freshman

English

Etymology

From fresh +? man.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?f???m?n/

Noun

freshman (plural freshmen)

  1. (obsolete) A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge.
  2. (US) A person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade), a university, or legislative body.
    At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.

Synonyms

  • (British) fresher
  • (Canadian) grade nine student / grade 9 student / Grade 9 student / grade-niner / grade niner
  • (Canadian) first-year student / first year student / first-year university student / first year university student
  • (US) frosh

Translations

See also

  • junior
  • senior
  • sophomore
  • upperclassman

Anagrams

  • Fehrmans

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freshie

English

Alternative forms

  • freshy

Etymology

fresh +? -ie. In the sense of an immigrant, shortened from fresh off the boat.

Pronunciation

Noun

freshie (countable and uncountable, plural freshies)

  1. (countable, colloquial, US) A freshman.
  2. (countable, colloquial, Britain) A new immigrant (usually to the UK).
  3. (countable, colloquial, Australia) A freshwater crocodile
  4. (uncountable, colloquial, skiing) Freshly fallen snow.

Synonyms

  • (freshman): fresher, frosh
  • (new immigrant): comeling, FOB, greener, newling; see also Thesaurus:newcomer

See also

  • freshies

Anagrams

  • freeish, heifers

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