different between freshman vs freshling

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

English

Etymology

fresh +? -ling

Adjective

freshling (not comparable)

1. (poetic) freshly grown

   • There comes the gentle steps of spring / So delicate of hues & fair / Rich greens—& glad birds glossy wing / Fanning the freshling hedges there

   • He blundered through the lighted stretch of fresh strewn hours, / Nor looked to profit at glad life in freshling flowers

Noun

freshling (plural freshlings)

1. An inexperienced person; a neophyte.

   • Mere freshlings are they, blank of brow, / Who read not how / Its prime had passed before / Their raw equipments, scenes, and says / Afflicted its memoried face, / That had seen every larger phase / Of human ways / Before these filled the place.

Related terms

• freshle
• freshman
• youngling