HOW TO PRONOUNCE
sophomore
/ˈsɑf.mɔɹ/
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What does sophomore mean?
adjective
- The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university.
- Sophomoric.
noun
- A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school.
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noun
- A three-year-old horse.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɑf.mɔɹ/
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One March evening in my sophomore year I was sitting alone in my room after supper.
He was then twenty, a sophomore at college, and a wholesome fellow to look upon.
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Some of the sophomore steel went up into another grade where it was roasted yet again and rolled thin into a junior.
The only scholarship possible in the Sophomore year was a very small affair.
We saw the sophomore class in sheep-shearing shear a dozen sheep.