Usually means: First-year student in college.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word freshman:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. freshman: Merriam-Webster
  2. freshman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. freshman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. freshman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. freshman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Freshman, freshman: Wordnik
  7. freshman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. freshman: Wiktionary
  9. freshman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. freshman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. freshman: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Freshman, freshman: Dictionary.com
  13. freshman: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. freshman: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Freshman (disambiguation), Freshman, The Freshman (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), The Freshman (Gossip Girl), The Freshman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Freshman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. freshman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. freshman: Rhymezone
  19. Freshman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. freshman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. freshman: FreeDictionary.org
  22. freshman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. freshman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. freshman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freshman: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freshman: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. freshman: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (US, Canada, Philippines) 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
▸ noun:  (obsolete) a novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge

Similar:
fresher, neophyte, newcomer, fledgling, entrant, first, starter, fledgeling, first-year, underclassman, more...

Opposite:
sophomore, junior, senior

Types:
first-year, 9th-grader, newbie, rookie, neophyte, more...

Phrases:
freshman year, freshman class, freshman week, freshman fifteen, redshirt freshman, more...

Adjectives:
average, old, high, young, incoming, only, american, little, typical, sub, poor

Colors:
    maroon,     forest green,     royal blue,     burgundy,     gold, more...


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Similar:
fresher, neophyte, newcomer, fledgling, entrant, first, starter, fledgeling, first-year, underclassman, more...

Opposite:
sophomore, junior, senior

Types:
first-year, 9th-grader, newbie, rookie, neophyte, more...

Phrases:
freshman year, freshman class, freshman week, freshman fifteen, redshirt freshman, Operation Freshman, Freshman 15, freshman orientation, academy freshman, more...

Adjectives:
average, old, high, young, incoming, only, american, little, typical, sub, poor

Colors:
    maroon,     forest green,     royal blue,     burgundy,     gold, more...



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