Synonyms for varsity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : vahr-si-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɑr sɪ ti |
Définition of varsity
Origin :- 1846, "university," variant of earlier versity (1670s), shortened form of university.
- As in first string : noun group of starting players
- Of them some twenty-four were on the 'varsity and sixteen on the second.
- Extract from : « Left End Edwards » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- After that, with the ball on the second's eight yards, the 'varsity should have scored easily.
- Extract from : « Left End Edwards » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- After that you may believe that the 'varsity played football!
- Extract from : « Left End Edwards » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- We've done as much, in a way, as the 'varsity fellows to win from Claflin.
- Extract from : « Left End Edwards » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- He's been begging the 'varsity fellows to get stale and be done with it.
- Extract from : « Left End Edwards » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- Smith, a 'Varsity man, and Pellams Chase, greatest of all joshers.
- Extract from : « Stanford Stories » by Charles K. Field
- Some were highly connected in other countries, some had been "'Varsity men."
- Extract from : « Reminiscences of Queensland » by William Henry Corfield
- I'm not quite the tailor's mannikin that I was in the old days at the 'Varsity.
- Extract from : « A Mating in the Wilds » by Ottwell Binns
- Everybody, scrub or 'Varsity, was crazy to win from the other colleges.
- Extract from : « Bert Wilson on the Gridiron » by J. W. Duffield
- Provisionally, they had been placed by the keen-eyed coach on the 'Varsity team.
- Extract from : « Bert Wilson on the Gridiron » by J. W. Duffield
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