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First-term congressman
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freshman
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A freshman is a first-year student. Freshman or Freshmen (or The Freshman or The Freshmen ) may also refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: first-year ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE republican ▪ Bill Clinton is no longer irrelevant to the House Republican freshmen . ▪ At least one House Republican freshman maintains a hoary political tradition by staging town meetings with his constituents. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "newcomer, novice," from fresh (adj.1) in the sense "making one's first acquaintance, inexperienced" + man (n.). Sense of "university student in first year" is attested from 1590s. As an adjective by 1805. Freshwoman is from 1620s. Related: Freshmen ...
Usage examples of freshman.
The freshmen in front of the car parted instinctively, but before the young chauffeur could put his threat into execution, Andy and his chums had reached the machine.
During the fourth quarter on Saturday, the Bruins freshman cornerback was carted off the field with a possible concussion.
My interest in cycles goes back even further than that, to an epiphany I had as a freshman in high school.
Two weeks prior to becoming a high school freshman, Dukey wrapped a boosted Gran Torino around a utility pole at ninety.
All I could think of was to ask the freshman and jayvee coaches of neighboring schools if anyone wanted to get one varsity year under his belt before testing the waters elsewhere.
Yet he is aware of the respect I command within every quarter of his school, and he has seen former kindergarteners of mine, now freshmen in our tri-suburban high school, return to my classroom and inform the awed children seated before them that Mrs.
Our youngest, Raymond, hopes to follow his brother Jim to Mercersburg after having won varsity letters in both cross-country running and wrestling in his freshman year at Bishop McNamara High School in Maryland.
During her freshman and sophomore years at Monrovia High School, Leslie was one of the homecoming princesses.
A frightful horror right out of Stephen King movieland, that junkheart of the college freshman girl-reading-Dean R.
Then, in a game against the Indiana freshmen, I was one of three players converging on a safetyman who had just intercepted a pass.
I actually studied my freshman yeara country bumpkin trying for the American Dream.
I was a wide-eyed innocent freshman at William and Mary, and Alan was a grad student in anthropology, earning his stipend by teaching an introductory anthro course.
His freshman year had been a blur of auditorium-sized classes, expensive fiches, loneliness, and work.
As a freshman in high school he was brought up by his coach, over the angry objections of the older players, to pitch the last varsity game of the season.
Finding that I was a thorough freshman, they undertook my education, and with that worthy purpose in view they allowed me to fall blindly into every trap.