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• sophomore — /sof euh mawr , mohr ; sof mawr, mohr/, n. 1. a student in the second year of high school or college. 2. a person or group in the second year of any endeavor: He s a sophomore on Wall Street. adj. 3. of or pertaining to a sophomore. 4. of or… …   Universalium

• sophisticate — [14] As those who hanker for the ancestral meanings of words never tire of pointing out, sophisticated originally meant ‘adulterated, corrupted’. The modern approbatory sense ‘worldly wise, cultured’ did not emerge (via an intermediate ‘lacking… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• sophomore — 1680s, student in the second year of university study, lit. arguer, altered from sophumer (1650s, from sophume, archaic variant form of SOPHISM (Cf. sophism)), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Gk. sophos wise + moros… …   Etymology dictionary

• sophomore — [ sɒfəmɔ:] noun N. Amer. a second year university or high school student. Derivatives sophomoric adjective Origin C17: perh. from earlier sophumer, from sophum, sophom (obs. vars of sophism) + er1 …   English new terms dictionary

• sophomore — soph•o•more [[t]ˈsɒf əˌmɔr, ˌmoʊr; ˈsɒf mɔr, moʊr[/t]] n. edu a student in the second year at a high school, college, or university • Etymology: 1645–55; earlier sophumer, perh. =sophum sophism+ er I …   From formal English to slang

• sophisticate — [14] As those who hanker for the ancestral meanings of words never tire of pointing out, sophisticated originally meant ‘adulterated, corrupted’. The modern approbatory sense ‘worldly wise, cultured’ did not emerge (via an intermediate ‘lacking… …   Word origins

• sophomore — [säf′môr΄, säf′ə môr΄] n. [altered (< Gr sophos, wise + mōros, foolish) < older sophumer < sophum, sophism, prob. < ME sophime, SOPHISM] 1. a student in the second year of college or the tenth grade in high school ☆ 2. a person in his …   English World dictionary