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An upperclasswoman is a female student in one of the last two years of an American high school or university — a junior or a senior. It is simply the female form of 'upperclassman', built the same way and used the same way, and its opposite is 'underclasswoman'. The plural is 'upperclasswomen'. You will meet it far less often than 'upperclassman', for a plain reason: when people talk about a mixed group, English has long used 'upperclassmen' for everyone, so 'upperclasswoman' tends to appear only when the speaker is pointing specifically at a woman — in a girls' school, in women's sports writing, or where the contrast with the men matters. Many American schools now avoid both and say 'upperclass students' or just 'juniors and seniors', which covers everybody and is shorter. So this is a word to recognise when you read rather than one you need to reach for. As with 'upperclassman', the 'class' here means the year group you belong to, not money and not a classroom, and it is written as one word.
(美國高中或大學的)高年級女學生
組成upper(較高的)+ class(同屆學生)+ woman(女性),照著 upperclassman 造出來的女性形式。
同家族的字
- upperclassmanthe word this was made from — the male or all-purpose form
- underclasswomanthe opposite — a first-year or second-year female student
- chairwomananother -woman form built beside an older -man word
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
upperclasswomannoun
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A female upperclassman.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。