Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Freshman

Freshman , noun

A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.
He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. — Goldsmith
Collocations (1)
Freshman class , the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [United States]