freshman
Syllables: fresh·man/ˈfɹɛʃ.mən/
freshman noun: a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body.
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Noun
freshman (plural freshmen)
- a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body
- At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.
- When he was but yet a freshman in Cambridge.1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden
- Synonyms:
- first-year student, first year student, 1st year student, 1st yr student
- a novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge
- I am but a Freshman yet in France, therefore I can send you no News but that all is here quiet, and 'tis no ordinary News that the French should be quiet.1619 August 6, James Howell, The Familiar Letters of James Howell, volume 1, published 1892, Letter XIII, page 39
freshman meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam and Tagalog
freshman in Urdu
- مبتدی
freshman in Telugu
- ఫ్రెష్మాన్
freshman in Malayalam
- first year student, undergraduate, newcomer
- വിരുന്നൻ, നവാഗതൻ, പുതുവിദ്യാർത്ഥി, കോളജിൽ ആദ്യ വർഷക്ലാസ്സിലെ വിദ്യാർത്ഥി, കോളജിൽ ആദ്യ വർഷക്ലാസ്സിലെ വിദ്യാർത്ഥിനി, പുതുതായിചേർന്ന ആൾ
freshman in Tagalog
- a person of either sex entering the first year of an institution
- untaunan
More languagesFewer languages
- freshman in Thai
- น้องใหม่
Examples of freshman in a sentence
- Many alumni come back for homecoming, and many freshmen are advised to flee.
- The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.
- Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue.
Synonyms of freshman
- first-year student
- first year student
- 1st year student
- 1st yr student
- fresher
- frosh
- freshie
- grade nine student
- grade 9 student
- grade-niner
3 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- grade niner
- grade seven student
- grade 7 student
Forms of freshman
| plural | freshmen |
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Origin of freshman
From fresh + man.
Words formed from freshman
Phrases with freshman
Questions about freshman
- What does freshman mean?
- Freshman means a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body.
- What is freshman in Urdu?
- Freshman in Urdu is مبتدی. See Freshman meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is freshman?
- Freshman is a noun.
- How do you pronounce freshman?
- Freshman is pronounced /ˈfɹɛʃ.mən/.
- What is the plural of freshman?
- The plural of freshman is freshmen.
Words near freshman in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: freshman (page history and authors); freshman (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); freshman (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); freshman (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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