freshman : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: freshman	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
freshman adj used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college" Synonym(s): freshman, first-year n a first-year undergraduate Synonym(s): freshman, fresher any new participant in some activity Synonym(s): newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Freshman \Fresh"man\, n.; pl. {Freshmen}. novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. --Goldsmith. {Freshman class}, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]