freshman

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: fresh=man

CIDE DICTIONARY

freshman, n. 

 A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.  [1913 Webster]
"He drank his glass and cracked his joke,
And freshmen wondered as he spoke."  [1913 Webster]

Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

freshman, n. (pl. -men) a first-year student at university or US at high school.

THESAURUS

freshman

abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, cadet, catechumen, colt, deb, debutant, entrant, fledgling, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee, infant, initiate, junior, learner, midshipman, neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, plebe, postulant, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, senior, soph, sophomore, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, undergrad, undergraduate, upperclassman

ROGET THESAURUS

freshman

Learner

N learner, scholar, student, pupil, apprentice, prentice, journeyman, articled clerk, beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur, abecedarian, alphabetarian, alumnus, eleve, recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer, seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner, debutant, intern, resident, schoolboy, fresh, freshman, frosh, junior soph, junior, senior soph, senior, sophister, sophomore, questionist, undergraduate, graduate student, law student, medical student, pre-med, post-doctoral student, post-doc, matriculated student, part-time student, night student, auditor, class, grade, seminar, form, remove, pupilage, disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte, fellow-student, condisciple, school, in statu pupillari, in leading strings, practise makes perfect.