English dictionary · noun
sophomore
a second-year student
Meaning and definitions
- a second-year student
Connected roots
- soph-
wisdom, skill
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- philosophy
the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence
- sophisticated
having refined worldly knowledge or experience; complex
- theosophy
a philosophy holding that knowledge of God may be achieved through spiritual insight
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