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Definition of: sophomore
(sof′ə·môr, -mōr) noun
In American high schools, colleges, and universities having a four–year course, a second–year student. [Earlier sophomer a dialectician <sophom, var. of SOPHISM (def. 1), because they studied dialectics; later infl. in meaning by Gk. sophos wise + mōros a fool]
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