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单词 sophomore
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sophomoren.

Brit. /ˈsɒfəmɔː/, U.S. /ˈsɔf(ə)ˌmɔr/, /ˈsɑf(ə)ˌmɔr/
Forms: Also 1600s sophy moore, 1700s– sophimore (1700s soph mor).
Etymology: apparently < sophom sophism n. + -or suffix. Compare sophumer n.
Now U.S.
1. A student of the second year:
a. At Cambridge. Obsolete.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 199/1 The several degrees of persons in the University Colledges... Fresh Men, Sophy Moores, Junior Soph, or Sophester. And lastly Senior Soph.
1795 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 818 The Freshman's year being expired, the next distinctive appellation conferred is A Soph Mor.
b. In American universities and colleges. Also transferred (quot. 1807 at α. ).
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > 2nd or 3rd year student
sophister1574
sophister1650
sophumer1653
soph1661
sophomore1688
sophomore1726
soph1778
freshman-sophomore1851
sophomoric1946
α.
1726 in J. Quincy Hist. Harvard (1840) I. 441 The Sophomores recite Burgersdicius's Logic..in the mornings and forenoons.
1766 in B. Peirce Hist. Harvard Univ. (1833) 246 That the Sophomores shall attend..on Mondays.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 296 The sophomores [at Dartmouth] attend to the languages, geography, logic and mathematics.
1807 Salmagundi 27 June 244 Three different orders of shavers in New-York—those who shave pigs. N.B. Freshmen and Sophomores.
1826 J. L. Motley Let. 29 Apr. in Corr. (1889) I. i. 6 Mr. Cogswell says he should think I might enter Sophomore [at Harvard].
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys 157 He would have been nearly through a college year, by this time; and he had been ready to enter as Sophomore.
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 22 Sept. 217 Under this system the ‘academic’ students, i.e., the freshmen and sophomores, work off their required subjects two at a time.
β. c1764 Freshman Laws in Woolsey Hist. Disc. Yale Coll. (1850) 55 A Senior may take a Freshman from a Sophimore, a Bachelor from a Junior.1778 E. Stiles Lit. Diary 15 July (1901) II. 285 [List of] Sophimores.1805 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled iv. 112 With all his sophimore's rotundity, With all his semblance of profundity.
2. attributive, passing into adj., as sophomore class, sophomore society, sophomore year, etc.
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1778 E. Stiles Lit. Diary 25 June (1901) II. 276 Disciplined Cowles & examined & admitted him into the Sophimore Class.
1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 381 Two prizes for problems during the Freshman and Sophomore years.
1883 Cent. Mag. 25 517/1 Helen was in the Sophomore year of the class..when Robert came home from his first cruise.
1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 95 This fact is..of greater significance than any one..is likely to attach to the sophomore society.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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