sophomore
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3.3
- adjective
- /ˈsɑːfəmɔːr/
- US
:
de segundo año
- In the summer of my sophomore year in high school, 1964, I ran away from home.
- sophomore year
- sophomore writing class
- sophomore semester
So I did like my sophomore year, my junior year.
- So I did like my sophomore year, my junior year.
- When I played and got to varsity freshman and sophomore year, he played shortstop.
- And then a few years later, I was going into my, I believe my sophomore season of high school.
- I had this one best friend, though that was there and I was friends with her till my sophomore year of high school, kind of.
- But basically I started talking to this guy during the summer was freshman year going on to sophomore year and whatever.
- where, you know, somebody shows up freshman or sophomore year with a bottle of this stuff and you're all good with it for a long time.
- Let me give a flashback my sophomore year.
- And then I had a friend from middle school who I started hanging out with in freshman and sophomore year.
Examples
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The students were enrolled in freshman and sophomore level classes and represented a diversity of disciplines.
Academic text (2005) -
Marisol was in Hall's sophomore English class, which required a daily writing assignment.
Academic text (2014) -
I think my feet grew until like sophomore year of high school.
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To provide support for the student body, the university began a Sophomore Year initiative and set up learning communities.
Academic text (2007) -
My love for photography began the summer after my sophomore year in high school.
Academic text (2008) -
I took my first photography class my sophomore year, and my interest in photography really took off from there.
Academic text (2001) -
He's going to be a sophomore in high school.
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When I was a sophomore in high school, a nun who are by the way, I love her and I still love her.
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Potential participants included full-time students of freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior status.
Academic text (2013) -
During my sophomore year in college, I decided to study abroad.
Synonyms
46
2.4
A student in their second year at high school or university
1
8.1
About the second year of study at school or college
Compounds
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sophomore as an adjective comes from the same Greek parts sophos and moros, meaning 'wise' and 'fool'. It suggests a 'wise fool'—more experienced than a first-year but still learning—so it describes things that belong to the second year at school.