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🧍 Middle person 🎓 Middle-year student
middler

middler

7.8
A student in the central year of a course that lasts several years
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪd.lər/
  • Jargon
: estudiante de segundo año
  • In her second year of university, Jessica felt more confident than she did as a middler.

Examples

  • As a middler in the pre-law program, he began to focus on internships relevant to his career.

  • The schools often organize events specifically for middlers to prepare them for their final year.

  • And we can tell, you know, a middle schooler started making these sandwiches.

  • And I encountered the Earthsea novels as a middle schooler.

  • I hope she's, I hope Midler's a middler and starts meddling.

  • For example, Marian is a wonderful, hard working and bright middle schooler who is dyslexic.

  • It's time for the old to be old, the young to be whatever they are—it passed me by—and us middlers to do whatever it is we can, which, as I feel now—tossing the bag strap over her shoulder with the ease and resolve of a climber—is plenty.

    Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

sophomore
vsmiddler
  • US
98 3.3

Relating to the second year of college or high school in the US

is used for the middle year in any multi year program not only American
second-year
vsmiddler
  • US
47 2.4

A student in their second year at high school or university

refers to students in the central year of a multi year course

Surface Forms

middler singular
middlers plural

Morphology

middler = middle (semi-transparent) = middle + er

The form is clear, but the specialized academic meaning 'student in the middle year' is a conventional institutional use that is only partly predictable from 'middle' + '-er'.

Etymology

Middler comes from the word middle meaning 'in the middle' and the ending -er meaning 'one who', so in school use it names a student who is in the middle year of a course.