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jun·ior  (jnyr)
adj.
1. Abbr. Jr. Used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.
2. Intended for or including youthful persons: a junior sports league.
3. Lower in rank or shorter in length of tenure: a junior officer; the junior senator.
4. Of, for, or constituting students in the third year of a U.S. high school or college: the junior class.
5. Lesser in scale than the usual.
n.
1. A person who is younger than another: a sister four years my junior.
2. A person lesser in rank or time of participation or service; subordinate.
3. A student in the third year of a U.S. high school or college.
4. A class of clothing sizes for girls and slender women. Also called junior miss.

[Middle English, from Latin inior, comparative of iuvenis, young; see yeu- in Indo-European roots.]

junior
Adjective
1. lower in rank or position: junior officers
2. younger: world junior champion
3. (in England and Wales) of school children between the ages of 7 and 11 approximately
4. US of the third year of a four-year course at college or high school
Noun
1. a person holding a low rank or position
2. a person who is younger than another person: the man she is to marry is 20 years her junior
3. (in England and Wales) a junior school child
4. US a junior student [Latin: younger]

Junior
Adjective
the younger of two: usually used after a name to distinguish between two people of the same name: Harry Connick Junior
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.junior - term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male; "look here, junior, it's none of your business"
arriviste, nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart - a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
2.junior - a third-year undergraduate
lowerclassman, underclassman - an undergraduate who is not yet a senior
3.junior - the younger of two persons; "she is two years my junior"
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
4.Junior - a son who has the same first name as his father
son, boy - a male human offspring; "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is"
Adj.1.junior - younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
young, immature - (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"
subordinate - subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"
senior - older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer"
2.junior - used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"
intermediate - lying between two extremes in time or space or state; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate range plane"
3.junior - including or intended for youthful persons; "a junior sports league"; "junior fashions"
young, immature - (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"

junior
adjective 2. younger, << OPPOSITE senior
Translations
Spanish junior [ˈdʒuːnɪəʳ] adj (in age) → menor, más joven; [competition] → juvenil; [position] → subalterno
nmenor m/f; joven m/f;
he's junior to me → es menor que yo

French junior [ˈdʒuːnɪəʳ] adj, n he's junior to me (by two years), he's my junior (by two years) → il est mon cadet (de deux ans), il est plus jeune que moi (de deux ans);
he's junior to me (seniority) → il est en dessous de moi (dans la hiérarchie), j'ai plus d'ancienneté que lui

German junior [ˈdʒuːnɪəʳ] adjjünger;
(subordinate) → untergeordnet
nJüngere(r) f(m);
(young person) → Junior m;
he's junior to me (by 2 years), he's my junior (by 2 years) (younger) → er ist (2 Jahre) jünger als ich;
he's junior to me (subordinate) → er steht unter mir

Italian junior [ˈdʒuːnɪəʳ] adj, n he's junior to me (by 2 years): he's my junior (by 2 years) → è più giovane di me (di 2 anni);
he's junior to me (seniority) → è al di sotto di me, ho più anzianità di lui

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As to the minor priests and acolytes of that temple, the result of all this was that they stood divided into two classes, and, down to the junior messenger, either believed in the Circumlocution Office as a heaven-born institution that had an absolute right to do whatever it liked; or took refuge in total infidelity, and considered it a flagrant nuisance.
About this time Thersites Junior really began to make something like a reputation, and to walk abroad habitually with a bank-note comfortably lodged among the other papers in his pocketbook.
Monsieur Poiret junior, called "junior" to distinguish him from his brother Monsieur Poiret senior (now living in the Maison Vanquer, where Poiret junior sometimes dined, intending to end his days in the same retreat), had spent thirty years in the Civil Service.
 
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