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sophomore

[ sof-uh-mawr, -mohr; sof-mawr, -mohr ]

noun

  1. a student in the second year of high school or college.
  2. a person or group in the second year of any endeavor:

    He's a sophomore on Wall Street.



adjective

  1. of or relating to a sophomore.
  2. of or being a second effort or second version:

    Their sophomore album was even better than their first.

sophomore

/ ˈɒəˌɔː /

noun

  1. a second-year student at a secondary (high) school or college
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. (of a book, recording, etc by an artist) second

    her sophomore album

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sophomore1

1645–55; earlier sophumer, probably equivalent to sophum sophism + -er 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sophomore1

C17: perhaps from earlier sophumer, from sophum, variant of sophism + -er 1
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They won the first Los Angeles Unified School District esports championship and won the CIF Rocket League title last year as sophomores.

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As a sophomore at Loyola Chicago, he’d fallen into a depression so deep that he considered suicide.

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That, after brief flashes of brilliance last year, he is starting to put all the pieces together for a breakout sophomore season.

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And as the filmmaker responsible for one the great sophomore outtings of 21st century cinema.

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And he’d grown increasingly burdened by the precariousness of his situation, inching ever closer to a James Outman-esque trajectory of regressing from a productive rookie season to a disheartening sophomore campaign.

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