About The Word Junior
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Junior
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What's The Definition Of Junior?
[n] the younger of two men
[n] a third-year undergraduate [n] a son who has the same first name as his father [n] term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male; "look here, junior, it's none of your business" [adj] including or intended for youthful persons; "a junior sports league"; "junior fashions" [adj] younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service Synonyms | Synonyms for Junior: immature | inferior | Jnr | Jr | jr. | junior-grade | lower | lower-ranking | lowly | minor(ip) | petty(a) | secondary | subaltern | subordinate | young | younger Related Terms | Find terms related to Junior: adolescent | after | assistant | attendant | baby | cadet | cog | common | commonality | commonalty | consecutive | creature | demeaning | disadvantaged | employee | ensuing | fledgling | flunky | follower | following | freshman | helper | hoi polloi | hopeful | humble | in the shade | infant | inferior | infra dig | juvenal | juvenile | later | less | lesser | lightweight | lineal | low | lower | lower class | lower orders | lowly | masses | midshipman | minor | modest | ordinary | pawn | plebe | posterior | pubescent | puisne | right-hand man | sapling | second fiddle | second rank | second string | secondary | senior | sequent | servant | servile | slip | soph | sophomore | sprig | stripling | sub | subaltern | subject | subordinate | subsequent | subservient | succeeding | successive | teenager | teener | teenybopper | third rank | third string | third stringer | undergrad | undergraduate | underling | underprivileged | understrapper | upperclassman | vulgar | yes-man | young hopeful | young person | younger | youngest | youngling | youngster | youth See Also | adult male | boy | lowerclassman | man | nouveau-riche | parvenu | son | underclassman | upstart Junior In Webster's Dictionary \Jun"ior\, a. [L. contr. fr. juvenior, compar. of juvenis
young. See {Juvenile}.]
1. Less advanced in age than another; younger.
Note: Junior is applied to distinguish the younger of two
persons bearing the same name in the same family, and
is opposed to {senior or elder}. Commonly applied to a
son who has the same Christian name as his father.
2. Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a
junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.
3. Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing;
as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a
junior class. See {Junior}, n., 2.
4. Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
Our first studies and junior endeavors. -- Sir T.
Browne.
\Jun"ior\, n. 1. A younger person. His junior she, by thirty years. -- Byron. 2. Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course. |
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