junior
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yər adjective
1.
2.
of more recent appointment or admission, as to an office or status; of lower rank or standing: a junior partner.
3.
(in American universities, colleges, and schools) noting or pertaining to the class or year next below that of the senior.
4.
Finance. subordinate to preferred creditors, mortgagees, and the like.
5.
of later date; subsequent to: His appointment is junior to mine by six months.
6.
composed of younger members: The junior division of the camp went on the hike.
7.
being smaller than the usual size: The hotel has special weekend rates on junior suites.
8.
(of an iron or steel shape) relatively small, but rolled to a standard form.
9.
of, for, or designating clothing in sizes 3–15 or those who wear it: a junior dress; junior measurements; the junior department.
noun
10.
a person who is younger than another.
11.
a person who is newer or of lower rank in an office, class, profession, etc.; subordinate.
12.
a student who is in the next to the final year of a course of study.
13.
Often, juniors.
a.
a range of odd-numbered sizes, chiefly from 3 to 15, for garments that fit women and girls with shorter waists, narrower shoulders, and smaller bustlines than those of average build.
b.
the department or section of a store where garments in these sizes are sold.
14.
a garment in this size range.
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Origin:
1520–30; < Latin jūnior younger
1520–30; < Latin jūnior younger
Related forms
pre·jun·ior, adjective
sub·jun·ior, adjective
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junior (ˈdʒuːnjə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | lower in rank or length of service; subordinate |
| 2. | younger in years: junior citizens |
| 3. | of or relating to youth or childhood: junior pastimes |
| 4. | (Brit) of or relating to schoolchildren between the ages of 7 and 11 approximately |
| 5. | (US) of, relating to, or designating the third year of a four-year course at college or high school |
| —n | |
| 6. | law (in England) any barrister below the rank of Queen's Counsel |
| 7. | a junior person |
| 8. | (Brit) a junior schoolchild |
| 9. | (US) a junior student |
| [C17: from Latin: younger, from juvenis young] | |
| Junior (ˈdʒuːnjə) | |
| —adj | |
| Jnr, Jr, Jun, Abbreviation: Junr being the younger: usually used after a name to distinguish the son from the father with the same first name or names: Charles Parker, Junior | |
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Word Origin & History
junior
1296, from L. junior, comp. of juvenis "young, young man" (see young). Used after a person's name to mean "the younger of two" from 1409 (in Anglo-L.). Abbreviation Jr. is attested from 1623. Meaning "of lesser standing, more recent" is from 1766. That of "meant for younger
people, of smaller size" is from 1860. Junior college first attested 1899; junior high school is from 1909. Junior miss "young teenage girl" is from 1907.
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Example sentences
He then accepted a junior faculty position, studying the immune system.
Only years later do parents really being to understand why junior was acting that way.
By his junior year he was the starting varsity shortstop.
Today, the term may conjure up memories of sewing and baking cookies in junior high school.
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