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.
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”