varsity
Other forms: varsities
The word varsity identifies the starting team in a sport at a college or university. You have to be good to make varsity.
At many schools, sports are a big deal. Thousands of people flock to college football and basketball games, plus other sports. The members of the starting team are varsity players. Varsity players are the best players: that’s why they start, and they usually finish the game too. It can take a while for a player to make varsity status.
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a team representing a high school, college, or universitysynonyms: first team
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a British abbreviation of 'university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge Universitytype of:universitythe body of faculty and students at a university
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Vocabulary lists containing varsity
Language change is driven by mistakes. If every generation of children learned perfectly what they heard spoken around them, then languages would be exact duplicates of themselves, stretching years into the past. But this isn't what happens. Errors, mishearings, inversion of sounds, dropping and adding of sounds, all these phenomena and more drive historical language change. You'll find a few of these systematic inconsistencies that result in other word forms below, as well as singular instances that don't fit a pattern where linguists can pinpoint exactly what went "wrong."
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