Freshman - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈfreʃmən|  American pronunciation of the word freshman
Brit.  |ˈfreʃmən|  British pronunciation of the word freshman

noun

- a first-year undergraduate (syn: fresher)
- any new participant in some activity (syn: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, neophyte, newcomer, starter)

adjective

- used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college) (syn: first-year)
a freshman senator
freshman year in high school or college

Extra examples

My daughter's a freshman at UCLA.

He was the best freshman in professional basketball this year.

...those two have been hobnobbing together since freshman year...

...in her perturbation she kept calling her son, a freshman, to see if everything was all right at college...

...the swift seduction of the college freshman into a life of drinking and partying...

Fran just finished her freshman year in college.

Are you going to the freshman mixer?

'The Freshman' was Brando's first starring role (=the most important part in a film) in ten years.

Word forms

noun
singular: freshman
plural: freshmen
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