first year

Definitions

1. 1

   A first-year student.

   • Another thing you should know about is that the first years always stand with the teachers on the first day.
   • Obviously it is pointless to expect from a group of first years the ability to pursue any great degree of abstraction in the preparation of a dance.
2. 2

   The first year of high school

   The first year of high school; seventh grade (now grade 7 of junior high school).

3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, year.

   • The use of sterilized compost when planting should minimize problems with weeds, at least for the first years.
   • For many couples, the first years seem to go the best.
   • First years are always hard for festivals.

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