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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



... no account whatever; you mean the carroty freshman I saw you with just now? Have him by all means; it will be quite refreshing to meet any man so regularly green. So there will be just four of us; eight o'clock, I suppose? it won't do to ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various

... fourteen, young Long entered the Freshman class at Harvard College. He at once took high rank, stood fourth in his class for the course, and second at the end of the Senior year. He was the author of the class ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various

... the students is talked of universally. They have what is called Freshman "Games", which are as follows: Upon appointed evenings they will meet at a select hotel (saloon). They take their places at the table, then, each one at the table, "sets them up" to all the rest. If there are twelve at the table each one gets twelve drinks. You can imagine the "games" after such ...
— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation

... of course, gets "the best fellows." Every touter informs the callow Freshman that all men of character and talent hasten to join his society, and impresses the fresh imagination with the names of the famous honorary members. The Freshman, if he be acute—and he is more ...
— Ars Recte Vivende - Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" • George William Curtis

... winter morning. I took occasion to introduce my name into the conversation, fearing that she might have misunderstood it. No light of intelligence beamed from her lovely eyes. I referred to my college days (and I suspect she took me for a Freshman), I hinted at Stillton, I even suggested that we had met as babies; but she only said that her recollection did not extend to that early period, and left me—for what? it is humiliating, but I will acknowledge it—for another fellow. This at last convinced me that she could not be my Jennie. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various


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