sophomore
/ˈsɒfəmɔː
/noun US
1A second-year university or high-school student: freshmen performed better than either sophomores or juniors [as modifier]: their sophomore year in college...
- Why are most of the victims physically weak such as university freshmen or sophomores or female students?
- We were sophomores at Howard University doing a good deed on a winter's day.
- So first semester of my sophomore year in high school was not the best time for me.
1.1 [as modifier] Denoting the second recording, film, etc. released or created by a particular musician, group, director, etc. the duo’s sophomore album the Canadian filmmaker’s sophomore movie is a father-son story...
- His long-awaited sophomore collection finds the poet challenging and revivifying the dominant acid-jazz of contemporary Canadian verse.
- She snagged the crown as our reader's favorite for the month with her long-awaited sophomore record.
- She announced her long-awaited sophomore LP and debuted a new song.
Origin
Mid 17th century: perhaps from earlier sophumer, from sophum, sophom (obsolete variants of sophism) + -er1.