Junior

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.
  • adj. Intended for or including youthful persons: a junior sports league.
  • adj. Lower in rank or shorter in length of tenure: a junior officer; the junior senator.
  • adj. Of, for, or constituting students in the third year of a U.S. high school or college: the junior class.
  • adj. Lesser in scale than the usual.
  • n. A person who is younger than another: a sister four years my junior.
  • n. A person lesser in rank or time of participation or service; subordinate.
  • n. A student in the third year of a U.S. high school or college.
  • n. A class of clothing sizes for girls and slender women. Also called junior miss.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Younger.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
  • adj. Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
  • n. A younger person.
  • n. A third-year student at a high school or university.
  • n. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name. Abbreviation: Jr.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated Jr.
  • adj. Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into a position or office
  • adj. Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; ; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2.
  • adj. Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
  • adj. of or relating to the third year of a four-year term; -- used of the third or next to final year in a U. S. high school or college. See junior{2}, n..
  • n. A younger person.
  • n. One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges and four-year high schools, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Younger; not as old as another.
  • Younger or lower in standing, as in a profession, especially the bar: as, a junior counsel; a junior partner in a firm or company.
  • In American colleges and schools, pertaining to the third year of the course, the next below the senior or last year; in institutions having a three years' course, usually pertaining to the first year (the second being called the middle year): as, the junior class; junior students.
  • n. A person younger than another.
  • n. One of less experience or inferior standing in his profession than another, who is called his senior; one employed as the subordinate of another, especially at the bar.
  • n. In American colleges and seminaries, a member of the junior class; a student in the junior year.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
  • adj. used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
  • n. a son who has the same first name as his father
  • n. a third-year undergraduate
  • n. term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male
  • adj. including or intended for youthful persons
  • n. the younger of two persons
  • Equivalent
    petty    lower-ranking    minor    Jr    secondary    junior-grade    subaltern    lowly    younger    intermediate   
    Antonym
    senior   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    son    boy    lowerclassman    underclassman    parvenu    upstart    nouveau riche    arriviste    person    mortal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    youngster    boots    fag   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    senior    competent    British    eminent    full-time    influential    medical    professional    Australian    principal