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soph

soph is the clipping of sophomore.

soph is the clipping of sophister.

Meaning of sophomore

Noun

sophomore (plural sophomores)

  1. (Philippines, US) A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school.
    • She was very mature for a sophomore and had several friends who were juniors or even seniors.
  2. (US) A three-year-old horse.
    • The filly had looked promising as a sophomore, but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races.

See all 4 meanings of sophomore

Meaning of sophister

Noun

sophister (plural sophisters)

  1. (derogatory, historical, obsolete) Synonym of sophist.
    • A subtle traitor needs no sophister.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    Synonyms:
    sophist
  2. (UK, US, archaic, universities) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.
    • In the older American colleges, the junior and senior classes were originally called Junior Sophisters and Senior Sophisters. The term is also used at Oxford and Dublin.1851, Benjamin Homer Hall, College Words and Customs, Cambridge, Mass.: John Bartlett, page 287

Proper noun capitalized: Soph

Soph

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Sophie and Sophia.
    • I’m Soph, not Sophie. When I order a coffee from Starbucks and I tell them my name is Soph, they reply with ‘Is that Sophie?’ When I sign off an email ‘Best Wishes, Soph’ and the reply is ‘Thanks for your email, Sophie’ – I don’t recall saying Sophie, so STOP. It’s Soph. Just Soph. Obviously if you...2023 April 6, Soph Galustian, “Introduction”, in No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer, London: Radar, →ISBN

Forms of soph

pluralsophs

Origin of soph

Shortening.

Words formed from soph

Questions about soph

What does soph mean?
Soph means a diminutive of the female given names Sophie and Sophia.
What is soph the clipping of?
Soph is the clipping of sophomore.
What part of speech is soph?
Soph is a proper noun.

Words near soph in the dictionary

  1. Sopel
  2. soper
  3. sopers
  4. Soperton
  5. sopes
  6. soph
  7. sopha
  8. sophas
  9. Sophene
  10. Sophenian
  11. Sophenians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soph (page history and authors); Soph (page history and authors); sophomore (page history and authors); sophister (page history and authors). 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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