nonfreshman

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noun

One who is not a freshman.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounnonfreshman (plural nonfreshmen)

plural nonfreshmen

  1. One who is not a freshman.

    Marginal nonfreshmen are much less likely to receive no choice than are safe nonfreshmen, but they are about equally likely to receive their first choice as are safe nonfreshmen.

    1987, Matthew D. McCubbins, Terry Sullivan, Congress: Structure and Policy, page 195
    2 more examples

    The 398 students were divided into three categories: 208 freshmen, 93 nonfreshmen who were evaluating teachers who did not teach them in their freshman year (nonacquainted nonfreshmen), and 37 nonfreshmen who were evaluating teachers who taught them in their freshman year (acquainted nonfreshmen).

    1978, College Student Personnel Abstracts - Volume 14, page 51

    On both comfort-rapport and evaluation clusters, low similarity was related to more favorable ratings by nonfreshmen but less favorable ratings by freshmen. All of these effects tended to be more pronounced in opposite-sex than same-sex pairings, particularly for nonfreshmen.

    1979, Elyse Zukerman, Changing Directions in the Treatment of Women, page 143

Origin

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