Undergraduate vs. Freshman

Undergraduatenoun

A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

Freshmannoun

(obsolete) A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge.

Undergraduateadjective

Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.

‘After completing my undergraduate studies, I embarked on a career in publishing.’;

Freshmannoun

(US) A person of either sex entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade), a university, or legislative body.

‘At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.’;

Undergraduatenoun

A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course. Contrasted with graduate student.

Freshmannoun

A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.

‘He drank his glass and cracked his joke,And freshmen wondered as he spoke.’;

Undergraduateadjective

Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates.

Freshmannoun

a first-year undergraduate

Undergraduatenoun

a university student who has not yet received a first degree

Freshmannoun

any new participant in some activity

Freshmanadjective

used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college);

‘a freshman senator’; ‘freshman year in high school or college’;

Freshman

A freshman, first year, or frosh, is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary or post-secondary school.