/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 being a second effort or second version: Their sophomore album was even better than their first.
[ 1645-55; earlier sophumer, prob. equiv. to sophum SOPHISM + -ER 1 ]