freshmen

Variant of freshman

freshman definition

fresh·man (fres̸h′mən)

noun pl. freshmen -·men (-mən)

  1. a beginner; novice
  2. a student in the first year of college or the ninth grade in high school
  3. ☆ a person in the first year, term, etc. of some enterprise a freshman in Congress

Etymology: fresh + man

adjective

of, for, or having to do with a freshman or freshmen

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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