freshman

Plural

freshmen

1. 1.a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body

   • When he was but yet a freshman in Cambridge.
   • At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.
   • As a country, we now enter what the seven freshmen called “unchartered waters”, with an unprecedented political and constitutional crisis looming on the horizon.

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• fresh