Other forms: sophomores
A sophomore is a student in the second year of a course. A sophomore year, sophomore student, only a sophomore.
It is American, and the four years run freshman, sophomore, junior and senior. The sophomore album is a standing phrase in music, and the sophomore slump is the difficulty of following a first success.
1nounsophomoreA student in the second year of a course.
“My sister is a sophomore at a college in Boston.”
sophomore is a student.
From an obsolete word for a dialectical exercise, from Greek sophisma, with the sense of a second-year student.
Ancient Greek
σόφισμα
an unknown language
sophumer
English, today
sophomore
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From an unknown language sophumer. From earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom, sophum (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), from Ancient Greek σόφισμα. Likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (“wise”) + μωρός (“fool”). Compare oxymoron literally “sharp-dull”, a similar contradiction.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA