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second-year

second-year

46 2.4
A student in their second year at high school or university
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɛkənd jɪr/
  • US
translation icon : de segundo año
  • Frances was a tall, big-hipped girl, a second-year student at St. Lawrence University planning to major in psychology.
  • second-year students
  • first- and second-year
  • second-year courses

And it wasn't until maybe the second year that I had this, like, breakdown in class, which is also one of VHS tape somewhere.

Examples

  • I'm actually going into my second year at med school.

    7 Below (2012)

  • All the subjects were undergraduates in a second-year social psychology course at Murdoch University, Western Australia.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Yeah, I'll start my second year in a few weeks.

    White Girl (2016)

  • Then I moved into painting in my second year.

    Guinevere (1999)

  • Using animals first hit me during my second year of graduate school.

    Academic text (1993)

  • "I just finished my second year," she answered, a little nervous from the question.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • At the end of my second year in college, my mother couldn't stop shopping.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Ellen is now in her second year of law school at Willamette.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • I'm a second-year associate at the firm.

    The Social Network (2010)

  • I'm starting my second-year courses next week at university.

Synonyms

sophomore
vssecond-year
  • US
30 3.3

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

is used for things relating to those students or to that academic year
sophomoric
vssecond-year
  • US
1 8.1

About the second year of study at school or college

refers more generally to relating to that student year rather than traits

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

second-year positive

Morphology

second-year = second + year (transparent) = second + year

The adjective is a straightforward compound of the ordinal 'second' and 'year', clearly indicating the second year of a program.

Etymology

The word second-year combines second ('after the first') and year ('a year of study'), so a second-year student is someone in their second year of high school or college, especially in the United States.