freshman
noun
a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
freshmen
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pluralof freshman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But most UC freshmen never take the courses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Its cast includes the bickering members of a Sri Lankan hotel cleaner’s family, insecure American freshmen, dead-end third-tier college professors and their highflying Ivy League counterparts and dispirited university functionaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Syracuse also failed to draw enough students overall—prompting it to offer emergency financial-aid packages to lure freshmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
A quartet of true freshmen pass-catchers trotted onto the Coliseum field around noon Saturday, taking their places to either flank of USC’s far-older quarterback.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
I wrote on the corner of my notebook: Compared to those freshmen, I spent the morning in a field of rainbows frolicking with puppies.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
