freshman

English

Etymology

From fresh +‎ man.

Noun

freshman (plural freshmen)

1. (obsolete) A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge.
2. (US) A person of either sex entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade), a university, or legislative body.

   At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.

Synonyms

• (UK) fresher
• (US) frosh

Translations

a person of either sex entering the first year of an institution

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一年級新生 (cmn), 一年级新生 (cmn) (yīniánjí xīnshēng), 新生 (cmn) (xīnshēng)

• Dutch: feut (nl) m
• Finnish: fuksi (fi)
• French: bizut (fr) / bizuth (fr), bleu (fr) m, bleue (fr) f
• German: Neuling (de) m
• Hungarian: elsőéves (hu), gólya (hu)
• Italian: matricola (it) f
• Japanese: 新入生 (ja) (しんにゅうせい, shinnyūsei), 一年生 (ja) (いちねんせい, ichinensei)

• Korean: 신입생 (ko) (sin-ipsaeng) (新入生 (ko)), 일학년 (ko) (irhangnyeon) (first-year student)
• Macedonian: бруцош (mk) (brúcoš) m
• Portuguese: calouro (pt), caloiro (pt)
• Russian: первокурсник (ru) (pervokúrsnik) m, первокурсница (ru) (pervokúrsnica) f (first-year student)
• Slovene: bruc (sl) m
• Spanish: novato (es) m, mechón (es) m
• Swedish: förstaårselev (sv) c, recentior (sv) c

See also

• upperclassman