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Junior (adjective)
Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
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Junior (adjective)
Younger.
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Junior (adjective)
Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
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Junior (adjective)
Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
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Junior (noun)
A younger person.
“four years his junior”
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Junior (noun)
A name suffix used after a son’s name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
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Junior (noun)
A third-year student at a high school or university.
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Teenager (noun)
A person between 13 and 19 years of age; an adolescent.
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Junior (adjective)
for or denoting young or younger people
“junior tennis”
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Junior (adjective)
for or denoting schoolchildren between the ages of about 7 and 11
“junior pupils”
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Junior (adjective)
of or for students in the third year of a course lasting four years at college or high school
“his junior year in college”
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Junior (adjective)
denoting the younger of two who have the same name in a family, especially a son as distinct from his father
“John F. Kennedy Junior”
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Junior (adjective)
low or lower in rank or status
“part of my function is to supervise those junior to me”
“a junior minister”
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Junior (noun)
a person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else
“he’s five years her junior”
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Junior (noun)
a child attending a junior school
“first-year juniors”
“the curriculum of top juniors”
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Junior (noun)
a student in the third year at college or high school
“high-school juniors and seniors”
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Junior (noun)
(in sport) a young competitor, typically under sixteen or eighteen
“indoor tennis for juniors”
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Junior (noun)
used as a nickname or form of address for one’s son
“he said: ‘there’s Junior,’ referring to his son”
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Junior (noun)
a person with low rank or status compared with others
“an office junior”