first-year

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English

Noun

first-year (plural first-years)

  1. Alternative form of first year.
    • 1977 November 8, “X-country squad finishes as champs”, in Spotlight, volume 13, number 9, Williamsport, Pa.: Williamsport Area Community College, page 7, column 2:
      “For being a first year coach he was really good,” said runner Thomas S. Varner referring to Houseknecht. “We learned a lot for a bunch of first-years.”
    • 2007, The Chambers Student Guide 2008, London: Chambers and Partners Publishing, →ISBN, page 583, column 1:
      The first-years are “always out as a group” and the café in the new building is a great meeting spot.
    • 2015, Amalie Jahn, chapter 33, in A Straw Man, Charlotte, N.C.: Bermlord, →ISBN, page 235:
      Closer to home, I overheard a conversation at breakfast from a group of first-years at the table beside me defending the bill’s position.
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