varsity
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈvɑːrsɪti/
- She joined the varsity swim team at the university to compete against other colleges.
- a varsity team
- a varsity athlete
- a varsity coach
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- I didn't make varsity and, and multiple of those sports.
- No, so like my, my oldest daughter Alana, she's plays varsity volleyball.
- When I played and got to varsity freshman and sophomore year, he played shortstop.
- But that evolved into playing varsity basketball as well as varsity tennis and a little bit of softball in high school.
- If you have an A-Team or a varsity team and AJV team, if you take the best players off the JV team and put them on varsity, JV team is not going to be as good.
- And I was on the swim team in, in at the school and we swam against the Naval Academy junior varsity team.
- So the plan was go to varsity and get good Marks and force the varsity to keep me.
Examples
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As one participant put it, "you have to have a thick skin" to be a varsity athlete.
Academic text (2002) -
Thus, it appears as though the college varsity athletes were not affected by the officials' expertise.
Academic text (2000) -
- You just made the varsity, little lady.
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Coach put me on the varsity team.
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And we tried out for the varsity team.
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John was a strong boy, a guard on the varsity football team.
Fiction book (1993) -
I was like, well, I could also try out for the varsity team there and spend another four years being a varsity athlete.
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At the University of Kentucky, varsity sports did not return to the campus for over fifty years.
Academic text (2002) -
Busted my butt in school, Captain of the varsity basketball team, Got into Yale College.
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CJ immediately joined the varsity team at South Pasadena when he arrived as a freshman.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
27
3.3
The main college or university sports team made of the best players
Compounds
5
4.5
A school or college sports team below the main team, often for younger players
2
4.4
An award made of cloth for students who play well on a school's main sports team
How Competitive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Varsity comes from the same short form of university, and people soon used it for the main team that represents a school in sport, so a 'varsity' team is the top college or university team.