Junior vs. Teenager

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  • Junior (adjective)

    Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.

  • Junior (adjective)

    Younger.

  • Junior (adjective)

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

  • Junior (adjective)

    Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.

  • Junior (noun)

    A younger person.

    “four years his junior”

  • Junior (noun)

    A name suffix used after a son’s name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).

  • Junior (noun)

    A third-year student at a high school or university.

  • Teenager (noun)

    A person between 13 and 19 years of age; an adolescent.

Wiktionary
  • Junior (adjective)

    for or denoting young or younger people

    “junior tennis”

  • Junior (adjective)

    for or denoting schoolchildren between the ages of about 7 and 11

    “junior pupils”

  • 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”

  • 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”

  • Junior (adjective)

    low or lower in rank or status

    “part of my function is to supervise those junior to me”

    “a junior minister”

  • Junior (noun)

    a person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else

    “he’s five years her junior”

  • Junior (noun)

    a child attending a junior school

    “first-year juniors”

    “the curriculum of top juniors”

  • Junior (noun)

    a student in the third year at college or high school

    “high-school juniors and seniors”

  • Junior (noun)

    (in sport) a young competitor, typically under sixteen or eighteen

    “indoor tennis for juniors”

  • Junior (noun)

    used as a nickname or form of address for one’s son

    “he said: ‘there’s Junior,’ referring to his son”

  • Junior (noun)

    a person with low rank or status compared with others

    “an office junior”

Oxford Dictionary

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