Junior

['dʒuːnɪə] or ['dʒunɪɚ]

Definition

(noun.) the younger of two persons; 'she is two years my junior'.

(noun.) a third-year undergraduate.

(noun.) a son who has the same first name as his father.

(noun.) term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male; 'look here, junior, it's none of your business'.

(adj.) including or intended for youthful persons; 'a junior sports league'; 'junior fashions' .

(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; 'the junior class'; 'a third-year student' .

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Definition

(a.) Less advanced in age than another; younger.

(a.) Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.

(a.) Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2.

(n.) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.

(n.) A younger person.

(n.) Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, 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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Younger.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Younger

ANT:Senior, elder

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Definition

adj. younger: less advanced.—n. one younger or less advanced.—ns. Junior′ity Jun′iorship; Jun′ior-right borough-English (q.v.).—Junior optime a third-class honours man at Cambridge next to Wranglers and Senior Optimes; Junior soph an undergraduate of the second year at Cambridge.

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