ADJECTIVE
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used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college)
freshman year in high school or college
a freshman senator
How To Use first-year In A Sentence
- My supervisor informs me that my paper looks fine to submit and informs me the date of my first-year viva.
- With a small pointed brush, a first-year maiko paints the lower lip only, leaving the upper lip bare. Times, Sunday Times
- That's Dr. Robert P. Ha in the photo above discussing a three-quarter-crown preparation with first-year student Renee Calkins.
- First-year males typically have rusty heads and rumps, but are not as red overall as mature males.
- Between a high-octane offense that features quarterback Matt Barkley, wide receiver Ronald Johnson and tailback Marc Tyler and a defense that will be looking to attone for last week's porous effort against Hawaii, USC will have plenty of weapons and motivation at its disposal during first-year Coach Lane Kiffin's home debut. Poll: How will Virginia fare at No. 16 Southern California
- First-year pine seedlings, grown in the greenhouse in southern Finland, will set an easily visible terminal bud toward the end of the summer.
- On balance, however, I think that the practice of making inconsistent alliances and following them up with first-year double-crosses is unwise.
- First-year males look like mature males but with rusty edgings on their black feathers.
- Familiarity with the rudiments of music notation and a certain degree of aural skills are important to the success of first-year music theory students, he says.
- As a first-year graduate student, I taught an undergraduate honors seminar on concepts of normality.