freshman Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a first-year undergraduate
    fresher.
  2. noun any new participant in some activity
    newbie; fledgeling; neophyte; newcomer; entrant; fledgling; starter.
  3. adjective satellite used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college)
    first-year.
    • a freshman senator
    • freshman year in high school or college

WordNet

Fresh"man noun
Wordforms
plural Freshmen
Definitions
  1. novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.
    He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith.

Webster 1913