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fourth-year

fourth-year

11 3.1
About the fourth and last year of high school or college
  • adjective
  • /fɔrθ jɪr/
  • US
translation icon : de cuarto año
  • Mark is currently in his fourth year at SUNY Oswego, where he instructs Communication Systems and Teaching Methods.
  • fourth-year students
  • fourth-year course
  • fourth-year medical

And he sets a fourth year project on teapot design for precisely this reason.

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Examples

  • The author wishes to thank Lior Barshack, a fourth-year law student at Tel-Aviv University, for his editorial assistance.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Julian, in his fourth year at Elk Park Prep, was bright and extremely competent.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Ben is a fourth year graduate student in the lab of Doctor Rob Wood.

  • I'm a fourth year chemistry student at USF.

    WIRED

  • I'm a fourth-year chemistry student at USF.

  • Oh, please remind Professor Collins that he'll be seeing all my fourth-year thesis advisees this afternoon.

  • Ben is a fourth-year graduate student in the lab of Doctor Rob Wood.

Synonyms

senior
vsfourth-year
  • US
281 2.6

Relating to the last year of high school or college

is identical in meaning but uses a numeric descriptive phrase instead of the common label

How Advanced

fourth-year
  • US
11 3.1
third-year
  • US
34 3.0
second-year
  • US
46 2.4
first-year
170 3.0

Surface Forms

fourth-year positive

Morphology

fourth-year = fourth + year (transparent) = fourth + year

Composed directly from the ordinal 'fourth' and 'year'; learners who know these parts can infer 'in the fourth year of study.'

Etymology

Fourth-year is made of fourth ('after three') and year ('one year of school'), so it refers to the time or a student in the fourth, often final, year of high school or college.