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Definition: Sophomore |
SophomoreAdjective1. Used of the second year in United States high school or college; "the sophomore class"; "his sophomore year". Noun1. A second-year undergraduate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sophomore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Etymology: Sophomore \Soph"o*more\, noun. [Probably from soph or sophister Greek expression foolish. The word was probably introduced into the United States at an early date, from the University of Cambridge, England. Among the cant terms at that university, as given in the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, we find Soph-Mor as ``the next distinctive appellation to Freshman,'' but the term has now almost ceased to be known at the English university from whence it came.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SophomoreSynonyms: second-year (adj), sophomore(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Learner | Schoolboy; fresh, freshman, frosh; junior soph, junior; senior soph, senior; sophister, sophomore; questionist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sophomore |
| English words defined with "sophomore": second-year, Soph, Sophomorical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sophomore": bullschildt. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | One day, I'm a sophomore in high school, I bring home a report card, it's almost all A's so I go to the old man, ask him if I can take the car out as sort of a victory drive. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) He once convinced a sophomore that he was the middle Hanson brother just so he could get laid. (Urban Legend; writing credit: Silvio Horta) Jonathan Moxon your are under arrest for not being naked with some sophomore chick who wants to bathe you with her tongue, now take off your clothes and get in the car. (Varsity Blues; writing credit: W. Peter Iliff) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sophomore Swing (1939) The Sophomore (1929) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sophomore class, Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Women | Kuwait | He claimed that cafeterias and hundreds of freshman and sophomore classes already had been segregated, but unless additional funds become available, it would be impossible to proceed with plans for new buildings and a new Women's College. (references) |
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Expression using "sophomore": sophomore class. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sophomore | 45 |
sophomore year | 11 |
girl sophomore | 5 |
only sophomore | 5 |
high school sophomore | 3 |
college scholarship sophomore | 3 |
high scholarship school sophomore | 2 |
avis hotel sophomore wien | 2 |
college sophomore | 2 |
scholarship sophomore | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sophomore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | student i vitit të dytë, njeri që bën detyrat e tij në afat të dytë, i paedukuar mjaft. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الطالب في السنة الثانية لدراسته. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | второкурсник. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 二年级学". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vysokoškolák v druhém roèníku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دانشجوی سال دوم(امر.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | étudiant de seconde année. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schüler (disciple, disciples, follower, pupil, pupils, scholar, schoolboy, schoolboys, student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δευτεροετήσ φοιτητήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | סטו" ט בש תו "ש י". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | másodikos középiskolás, másodéves egyetemista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fagiolo (bean, haricot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 二年" (biennial, second-year university or high-school student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にね"せい (biennial, second-year university or high-school student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 2 년생. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ophomoresay estudante de 2 ano universitário. (various references) student în anul al doilea. (various references) студент-второкурсник (soph, sophmore, sophs). (various references) student druge godine (second-year student). (various references) estudiante de segundo año. (various references) andraårsstuderande. (various references) นักศึกษาชั้นปีที่สอง. (various references) ikinci yıl öğrencisi, ikinci sınıf öğrencisi (soph). (various references) студент-другокурсник. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sophomore": sophomores. (additional references) | |
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"Sophomore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sophamore, sophemore, sophmore, sophomorec, sophomre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sophomore" (pronounced sÄ"fmô'r) |
| 3 | -m ô' r | claymore, evermore, furthermore, nevermore, sycamore. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-m-o-o-o-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: hoopers, hoopoes, morphos, oosperm, oospore. | |
-3 letters: ephors, homers, hooper, hoopoe, hopers, mopers, morose, morpho, morphs, mosher, oomphs, porose, posher, proems, promos, romeos. | |
-4 letters: ephor, hemps, herms, heros, hoers, homer, homes, homos, hoops, hoper, hopes, horse, moors, moose, moper, mopes, mores, morph, morse, omers, oomph, perms, poems, pomes, poohs, pores, poser, proem, promo, proms. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-m-o-o-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: sophomores. | |
+2 letters: homopterous, homospories. | |
+3 letters: chromophores, homopolymers, morphologies, mothproofers, protophloems. | |
+4 letters: homeomorphism, photocomposer, photopolymers, phytohormones. | |
+5 letters: chromatophores, chromoproteins, homeomorphisms, oophorectomies, paedomorphoses, paedomorphosis, photocomposers, photoperiodism, pseudomorphous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 70 68 6F 6D 6F 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .--. .... --- -- --- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o p h o m o r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0070 0068 006F 006D 006F 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538182748179818471 |
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