FRESHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fresher mean? 

• FRESHER (noun)
  The noun FRESHER has 1 sense:

1. a first-year undergraduate

  Familiarity information: FRESHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRESHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A first-year undergraduate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fresher; freshman

Hypernyms ("fresher" is a kind of...):

lowerclassman; underclassman (an undergraduate who is not yet a senior)

 Context examples 

They were smaller, and the edges looked fresher; that was all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Nay; I feel the fresher for it, Alleyne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It looked a very fresh, free life, by daylight: still fresher, and more free, by sunlight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mouthwashes, mints or chewing gum may make your breath fresher.

(Bad Breath, NIH)

In the course of the same morning, Anne and her father chancing to be alone together, he began to compliment her on her improved looks; he thought her less thin in her person, in her cheeks; her skin, her complexion, greatly improved; clearer, fresher.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

On the next day Koona went, and but five of them remained: Joe, too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious and not conscious enough longer to malinger; Sol-leks, the one-eyed, still faithful to the toil of trace and trail, and mournful in that he had so little strength with which to pull; Teek, who had not travelled so far that winter and who was now beaten more than the others because he was fresher; and Buck, still at the head of the team, but no longer enforcing discipline or striving to enforce it, blind with weakness half the time and keeping the trail by the loom of it and by the dim feel of his feet.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They had, therefore, many acquaintances in common; and though Wickham had been little there since the death of Darcy's father, it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends than she had been in the way of procuring.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The daisy of the field, at sunrise, is not fresher than you are.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the contrary, I thought he seemed the fresher for it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)