1. freshman(n = noun.person) fresher - a first-year undergraduate; Array
is a kind of lowerclassman, underclassman
2. freshman(n = noun.person) entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter - any new participant in some activity; Array
is a kind of beginner, initiate, novice, tiro, tyro
has particulars: enlistee, recruit
freshman(s = adj.all) first-year - used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college"
A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university. [1913 Webster]
"He drank his glass and cracked his joke,
And freshmen wondered as he spoke." [1913 Webster]
freshman, n. (pl. -men) a first-year student at university or US at high school.
N learner, scholar, student, pupil, apprentice, prentice, journeyman, articled clerk, beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur, abecedarian, alphabetarian, alumnus, eleve, recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer, seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner, debutant, intern, resident, schoolboy, fresh, freshman, frosh, junior soph, junior, senior soph, senior, sophister, sophomore, questionist, undergraduate, graduate student, law student, medical student, pre-med, post-doctoral student, post-doc, matriculated student, part-time student, night student, auditor, class, grade, seminar, form, remove, pupilage, disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte, fellow-student, condisciple, school, in statu pupillari, in leading strings, practise makes perfect.