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Freshman   /frˈɛʃmən/   Listen
Freshman

noun
(pl. freshmen)
1.
A first-year undergraduate.  Synonym: fresher.
2.
Any new participant in some activity.  Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter.
adjective
1.
Used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college).  Synonym: first-year.  "Freshman year in high school or college"



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"Freshman" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dean from the first day in her new home has been faithfully recorded in "MARJORIE DEAN, HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN." In that narrative was set forth her trials, which had been many, and her triumphs, which had been proportionately greater, as a freshman in Sanford High School. How she had become acquainted with Constance Stevens and how, after never-to-be-forgotten ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... father being a graduate of Harvard, his son likewise went to that institution. His early boyhood, when he was at the grammar school, was passed amidst the tumult of the Stamp Act, and the quartering of troops in Boston. When he entered Harvard as a freshman, on July 15, 1772, three days before he was fifteen years old, he was thoroughly accustomed to the strenuous ...
— The Contrast • Royall Tyler

... hundred," grunted "Bart" Cloud, not yet won over to good temper. "Every little freshman thinks he can buy a pair of moleskins and be a football man. Look at that fellow over yonder, the one with the baggy trousers and straw hat. The idea of that fellow coming down here just out of the hayfield and having the cheek to ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

... too, had fondled the pigskin. "I wasn't much of a player, though," he acknowledged. "I was sort of tall and puny-looking and not very strong. Still, I did get into my school team in my senior year and played on my freshman team in college. The next year I had to give it up, though. I'd like to come over some day and see you fellows play. I've always been intending to. I haven't seen a real smashing football game for years. That's funny, too, for I can remember the time when I used to think that if I could ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour

... matter of fact, when he came to that fearful test he ignominiously failed in it, and, indeed, did not finally get the required credit in it until nearly ready to graduate! But he was passed in enough of the entrance requirements to be given Freshman standing, "conditioned in English," a phrase not unfamiliar to other college students. He had, however, added something to his score by ...
— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg


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