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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freshman
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.
▪ John Shadegg, an Arizona Republican freshman.
▪ Matt Salmon, all Republican freshmen.
true
▪ He was backed up by true freshman Marcus Fields, who gained 90 yards on 19 carries.
■ NOUN
class
▪ The schools solidify their freshman classes with early picks of top talent.
▪ Tara is one of the finest coaches in the country, and she has just recruited one of her best freshman classes.
▪ Absent, too, is the zealous activism of a huge freshman class that entered Washington two years ago brimming with enthusiasm.
▪ Educators also say the size of freshman classes makes it unlikely for professors to know which students most need the new aid.
▪ The Howard students are part of a freshman class of 1, 290 students, 243 more than last year.
college
▪ More college freshmen are stressed about money, their grades and getting ahead.
▪ I first witnessed the phenomenon at a huge pentecostal rally I attended as a college freshman.
▪ Dear Help Wanted: I am a college freshman.
composition
▪ She would start her City College career in the freshman composition course.
▪ But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
▪ Did that mean that freshman composition, too, was taking an unfair sounding of their abilities?
▪ But would they be ready for a World Humanities class, or even freshman composition, in four months?
house
▪ Gingrich debuts as a House freshman trying right off to prevent the seating of a 24-year Democratic member.
rep
▪ The couple recently attended a campaign event for freshman Rep.
▪ In addition, Johnson was criticized recently for her handling in a separate case involving freshman Rep.
▪ When asked how his constituents were dealing with the crisis, freshman Rep.
▪ Tuesday evening after talking with fellow freshman Rep.
▪ Only one Democrat on the committee, freshman Rep.
year
▪ After his freshman year of high school, Sean and his family moved to another city.
▪ During our freshman year, Rebecca and I seal our friendship over meals at the campus dining hall.
▪ Even freshman year, when I felt like an outsider, it gave me a place to belong.
▪ One night during the summer after my freshman year, the phone rang while I was reading.
▪ Botsford, 15, just completed her freshman year in high school.
▪ My freshman year, the presentation was not good.
▪ This fall has been difficult for the two of them, room-mates since their freshman year, best friends and confidantes.
▪ After my poor freshman year, my grades started their ascent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Chris remembers his freshman year at UCLA as if it were yesterday.
▪ We were only freshmen, so the older kids liked to pick on us.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen.
▪ Cal freshman center Michael Stewart answers to Yogi.
▪ He was a senior at the University of Minnesota, she was a freshman.
▪ It held freshmen out of competition to give them an extra year to grow and mature.
▪ Nieboer-Erickson also speaks to all freshman athletes at annual orientation sessions.
▪ The couple recently attended a campaign event for freshman Rep.
▪ When asked how his constituents were dealing with the crisis, freshman Rep.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freshman

Freshman \Fresh"man\, n.; pl. Freshmen. A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.

Syn: frosh.

He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke.
--Goldsmith.

Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
freshman

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; freshmanic, freshmanship, freshmanhood.

Wiktionary
freshman

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge. 2 (context US English) A person of either sex entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade), a university, or legislative body.

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WordNet
freshman

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]

freshman

  1. n. a first-year undergraduate [syn: fresher]

  2. any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, newbie, entrant]

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Wikipedia
Freshman (disambiguation)

A freshman is a first-year student.

Freshman or Freshmen (or The Freshman or The Freshmen) may also refer to:

Freshman

A freshman is a term commonly used to mean a person entering the first year of an educational institution.

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.