fresher
n. countablen. a student who is in their first year at a university or college. It is a common name for new students in the UK.
n. a first-year undergraduate student at a university or college. Primarily used in British, Irish, and Commonwealth English.
The campus is full of nervous freshers this week.
During the first week of term, every fresher receives a welcome pack and a map of the campus buildings.
The university organizes a series of social events specifically designed to help each fresher integrate into the academic community and meet peers from different departments.
From fresh + -er (comparative suffix).
From a clipping of freshman + -er (Oxford -er).
Commonly used in the plural to refer to the intake of new students; often appears in the compound 'freshers' week'.
He is a freshman in London.He is a fresher in London.While 'freshman' is standard in American English, 'fresher' is the correct term used in British English contexts.