"first-year" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "first-years",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "first-year (plural first-years)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "first year"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1977 November 8, “X-country squad finishes as champs”, in Spotlight, volume 13, number 9, Williamsport, Pa.: Williamsport Area Community College, page 7, column 2:",
          "text": "“For being a first year coach he was really good,” said runner Thomas S. Varner referring to Houseknecht. “We learned a lot for a bunch of first-years.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, The Chambers Student Guide 2008, London: Chambers and Partners Publishing, →ISBN, page 583, column 1:",
          "text": "The first-years are “always out as a group” and the café in the new building is a great meeting spot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Amalie Jahn, chapter 33, in A Straw Man, Charlotte, N.C.: Bermlord, →ISBN, page 235:",
          "text": "Closer to home, I overheard a conversation at breakfast from a group of first-years at the table beside me defending the bill’s position.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of first year."
      ],
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        [
          "first year",
          "first year#English"
        ]
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "first-year"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "first-years",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "first year"
        }
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977 November 8, “X-country squad finishes as champs”, in Spotlight, volume 13, number 9, Williamsport, Pa.: Williamsport Area Community College, page 7, column 2:",
          "text": "“For being a first year coach he was really good,” said runner Thomas S. Varner referring to Houseknecht. “We learned a lot for a bunch of first-years.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, The Chambers Student Guide 2008, London: Chambers and Partners Publishing, →ISBN, page 583, column 1:",
          "text": "The first-years are “always out as a group” and the café in the new building is a great meeting spot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Amalie Jahn, chapter 33, in A Straw Man, Charlotte, N.C.: Bermlord, →ISBN, page 235:",
          "text": "Closer to home, I overheard a conversation at breakfast from a group of first-years at the table beside me defending the bill’s position.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of first year."
      ],
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        [
          "first year",
          "first year#English"
        ]
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  "word": "first-year"
}