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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]first year (countable and uncountable, plural first years)
- A first-year student.
- 1969 March 13, Charlie Dickins, “[Editorial]”, in Woroni, volume 21, number 2, Canberra: A.N.U. Students’ Association; Canberra Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., page 2:
- The obvious topic for this issue is the new first year students. What are they like? It would be easy to say that they seem to be a typical mob of apathetic new students. It would be more correct however, to say that they are simply a typical bunch of first years. They were given one of the best, if not the best, Orientation Weeks (thanks especially to the untiring efforts of Ronny-Boy Colman) that the A.N. U. has ever seen. The reaction of the first years was perhaps a little disappointing to the organisers but it was probably as good as could be expected.
- 1979, Alan Bleasdale, No More Sitting on the Old School Bench, Huddersfield, W.Y.: Woodhouse Books, published 1983, →ISBN, page 30:
- Another thing you should know about is that the first years always stand with the teachers on the first day.
- 1993, Linda Mather, chapter 23, in Blood of an Aries, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 193:
- Jo left the school in the wake of a bunch of first years who made for the gate as if the building was on fire.
- 2005, Jasmin Oliver, Gucci Girls: Cutting It, London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:
- The first years always fancy an older man, mate.
- 2007, Helen Ryan, A Year in the Life of Rachel, [Drogheda]: Choice Publishing & Book Services Ltd, →ISBN, page 54:
- There is a rumour going round the school that Claire Miles is throwing a party at Easter to celebrate her pregnancy. […] Of course it might not be true about the party. The stupid first years are always getting things wrong.
- (Philippines, education, uncountable) the first year of junior high school; seventh grade
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, year.
- 1992, Christopher Brickell, editor, The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening, London: BCA by arrangement with Dorling Kindersley, published 1994, →ISBN, page 207, column 1:
- The use of sterilized compost when planting should minimize problems with weeds, at least for the first years.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “first year”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “first-year”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.