freshman

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college)

   a freshman senator

2. 2
   noun

   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

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

3. 3
   noun

   a novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge

   I am but a Freshman yet in France, therefore I can send you no News but that all is here quiet, and 'tis no ordinary News that the French should be quiet.

4. 4
   noun

   a first-year undergraduate

5. 5
   noun

   any new participant in some activity

Etymology

From fresh + man.