The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
WordNet
n. the first class in college or high school
Usage examples of "freshman class".
In white jackets and beanies, six boys from the freshman class were to wait on the seniors.
The surviving members of my freshman class had turned in papers that were quite a bit above average.
As if the humiliation of convulsing before an entire freshman class wasn’.
Nate Hoppenstand was, I believe, the only member of the freshman class who actually wore that stupid blue dishrag until Maine's hapless football team finally scored a touchdown .
School, ten in the freshman class, and five in the sophomore class.
As a reward of merit he was elected president of the Freshman Class, a position of honor and responsibility—.
I tossed over the roster book and leaned back to think about the murder, since I, armed with the wisdom of age and the inside track, knew the freshman class was mistaken.
It looked like the whole freshman class had shown up and they hadn't quite chosen a large enough room.
The senator has recommended him for the freshman class starting after he graduates.
The freshman class that year was over five thousand, and nothing was computerized.
I won the election for freshman class president in one of my better campaigns, waged to an electorate dominated by Irish and Italian Catholics from the East.
We would like to invite everybody, but we can't-and you have been picked as one of the girls to represent the freshman class.
After a couple of weeks of his most dramatic classroom behavior, using carefully chosen, daring sex-words in front of his impressed freshman class, and after alluding to dark sorrows in his own life, Ben asked Sue if she would help him edit one of his latest books of poetry.