sophomore
pronunciation
How to pronounce sophomore in British English:
UK [ˈsɒfəmɔː(r)]
How to pronounce sophomore in American English:
US [ˈsɑːfəmɔːr]
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- Noun:
- a second-year undergraduate
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- Adjective:
- used of the second year in United States high school or college
Word Origin
- sophomore (n.)
- 1680s, "student in the second year of university study," literally "arguer," altered from sophumer (1650s, from sophume, archaic variant form of sophism), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Greek sophos "wise" + moros "foolish, dull." The original reference might be to the dialectic exercises that formed a large part of education in the middle years. At Oxford and Cambridge, a sophister (from sophist with spurious -er as in philosopher) was a second- or third-year student (what Americans would call a "junior" might be a senior sophister).
Example
- 1. I 'm a sophomore in high school .
- 2. He doesn 't want this , either.you remember sophomore year ?
- 3. Maxwell love , a sophomore at the university of wisconsin in madison , says that no matter what happens in the legislature , the protest has been a success .
- 4. He was a sophomore in a famous university .
- 5. I was a sophomore at princeton lying under a tree in the spring readingthis side of paradise-that 's an actual scene .