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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sophomore
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
year
▪ The tide began to turn for him about eight months into his sophomore year.
▪ In the middle of her sophomore year at the university, she had suddenly quit to enroll in a flying school nearby.
▪ In our sophomore year, for example, Fanshawe was the only member of our class to make the varsity baseball team.
▪ By sophomore year I was city editor of the Crimson, a big honor for one so young.
▪ Our sophomore year, Jack MacFarland finally revealed, would be different.
▪ She transformed a struggling Mustang team into a league runner-up her sophomore year and then into a two-time champion.
▪ None the less, sophomore year at Vassar was not easy for Maggie.
▪ She was starting her sophomore year at Stephens College, an exclusive junior college for women.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ George dropped out of college his sophomore year.
▪ This class is mainly for freshmen and sophomores.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ashley Greene, an Edgewater High sophomore, is confident she will pass the first time around.
▪ Johnson, a 19-year-old sophomore, was coming off his worst game for No. 7 Florida.
▪ My sophomore and junior years, I was a two-guard.
▪ On the one hand, sophomore shows are getting better, as some of the third-year shows did before them.
▪ Ryan Stromsborg, a sophomore from Notre Dame High, is challenging for a starting spot in the infield and outfield.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sophomore

Sophomore \Soph"o*more\, n. [Probably fr. soph or sophister + Gr. ? foolish. The word was probably introduced into the United States at an early date, from the University of Cambridge, England. Among the cant terms at that university, as given in the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, we find Soph-Mor as ``the next distinctive appellation to Freshman,'' but the term has now almost ceased to be known at the English university from whence it came.] One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also sophimore.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sophomore

1680s, "student in the second year of university study," literally "arguer," altered from sophumer (1650s, from sophume, archaic variant form of sophism), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Greek sophos "wise" + moros "foolish, dull." The original reference might be to the dialectic exercises that formed a large part of education in the middle years. At Oxford and Cambridge, a sophister (from sophist with spurious -er as in philosopher) was a second- or third-year student (what Americans would call a "junior" might be a senior sophister).

Wiktionary
sophomore

a. (context US English) The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university. n. 1 (context US English) A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school. 2 (context US horse-racing English) A three year old horse.

WordNet
sophomore

adj. used of the second year in United States high school or college; "the sophomore class"; "his sophomore year" [syn: sophomore(a), second-year]

sophomore

n. a second-year undergraduate

Wikipedia
Sophomore

In the United States, a sophomore ( or ) is a student in the second year of study at high school or college.

Sophomore (Ciara song)

"Sophomore" is a song by American recording artist Ciara recorded for her fifth studio album Ciara (2013). It was written by Soundz, with production also done by "Soundz". Musically "Sophomore" is a mid-tempo R&B song that lyrically described Ciara teaching her partner about sex education. The song Sophomore was originally leaked by DJ Orator in September 2012. To promote her self-titled album Ciara released five videos for five of the album's songs, a snippet "Sophomore" was released as the second of five.

Usage examples of "sophomore".

Jennifer Mickel, a Princeton sophomore majoring in Near Eastern Studies, is a Presbyterian from Monroe, Louisiana, and quite traditionalist in her moral values.

You know, perhaps, that two sophomores took advantage of her verdancy and hazed her.

It is distressing to think of all the sums now devoted to inducing callow, overdriven sophomores to compose forced essays and doggerel, by luring them on with the glitter of cash prizes.

City Administration Building across from City Hall to apply for a part-time job to help him with his tuition at Temple University, where he was then a premedical sophomore.

India, they met a young Canadian named Samantha Dooley, who had dropped out of her sophomore year at Harvard at the age of seventeen and a half and gone to live responsibly on the earth on a commune near Pune, where she was quietly starving when she met the three travelers.

In India, they met a young Canadian named Samantha Dooley, who had dropped out of her sophomore year at Harvard at the age of seventeen and a half and gone to live responsibly on the earth on a commune near Pune, where she was quietly starving, when she met the three travelers.

In addition to being sophomore class president, he was a peer counselor, high scorer of the varsity basketball team the past winter, and now he was the wunderkind of the baseball team.

By the time he was a sophomore in high school, Billy was the quarterback on the football team and the high scorer on the basketball team.

Kevin Heibein, the fresh-faced Worland city cop who looked as if he should be starting his sophomore year at Kootenai High.

Twenty-nine was Kevin Heibein, the fresh-faced Worland city cop who looked as if he should be starting his sophomore year at Kootenai High.

During her freshman and sophomore years at Monrovia High School, Leslie was one of the homecoming princesses.

Craig Parshall, Westerfield beat you up pretty viciously when you both were sophomores at Arbinger.

Grace, who, without mentioning her visit to Alberta Wicks, had assured her that she had made inquiry and found that the letter was not the work of the sophomore class as a body.

The voices, however, Grace recognized with a start as belonging to Beatrice Alden, the disagreeable junior, and Alberta Wicks of the sophomore class.

The bellperson will not leave you alone in your room until he has given you a briefing lasting at least as long as your sophomore year in high school.