freshmen
FRESH-muhn/ˈfɹɛʃmən/
- 1Plural of freshman.
The dormitory filled with nervous freshmen on move-in weekend.
Most freshmen take a required writing course in their first semester.
Note
The plural keeps the old -man/-men change rather than adding -s, like men and women. Despite the -men, it names first-year members of either sex, and it covers more than college students: incoming ninth graders in the US, grade 9 in Canada, grade 7 in the Philippines, and new members of a legislative body. An older, now obsolete use called any novices freshmen.
freshmen is a form of freshman
freshman, noun: A person in the first year of an institution, especially a high school, a university, or a legislative body. Full entry
- Forms
- freshmanfreshmen plural
- Spelling
- freshman → freshmen: irregular plural (no -s)
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