soph·o·more (s f  -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. [Alteration (probably influenced by Greek sophos, wise, and m  ros, stupid) of sophumer, from obsolete sophom, sophism, dialectic exercise, variant of sophism.] |
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]
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| Noun | 1. |  sophomore - a second-year undergraduate 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" 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" |
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