sophomore (redirected from sophomores)

soph·o·more  (sf-môr, sfmôr)

n.

1.

a. A second-year student in a U.S. college.

b. A tenth-grade student in a U.S. high school.

2. A person in the second year of carrying out an endeavor.

adj.

1. Of or relating to the second year of an endeavor, especially of attending a school or college.

2. Being the second in a series: a singer's sophomore album.

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[Alteration (probably influenced by Greek sophos, wise, and mros, stupid) of sophumer, from obsolete sophom, sophism, dialectic exercise, variant of sophism.]

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sophomore [ˈsɒfəˌmɔː]

n

(Social Science / Education) Chiefly US and Canadian a second-year student at a secondary (high) school or college

[perhaps from earlier sophumer, from sophum, variant of sophism + -er¹]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sophomore - a second-year undergraduate           soph lowerclassman, underclassman - an undergraduate who is not yet a senior
Adj.	1.	sophomore - used of the second year in United States high school or college; "the sophomore class"; "his sophomore year" second-year intermediate - lying between two extremes in time or space or state; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate range plane"

Translations

sophomore [ˈsɒfəmɔːʳ] N (US) → estudiante mf de segundo año GRADE

sophomore [ˈsɒfəmɔː^r]

n (US) → étudiant(e) m/f de deuxième année

modif
sophomore year → deuxième année f