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first-year en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of first year.
   alt of first year
   • The first-years are “always out as a group” and the café in the new building is a great meeting spot. 2007, The Chambers Student Guide 2008, London: Chambers and Partners Publishing, →ISBN, page 583, column 1:
   • 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. 2015, Amalie Jahn, chapter 33, in A Straw Man, Charlotte, N.C.: Bermlord, →ISBN, page 235:
   • “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.” 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:

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