Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.
- adjective Intended for or including youthful persons.
- adjective Lower in rank or shorter in length of tenure.
- adjective Of, for, or constituting students in the third year of a US high school or college.
- adjective Lesser in scale than the usual.
- noun A person who is younger than another.
- noun A person lesser in rank or time of participation or service; subordinate.
- noun A student in the third year of a US high school or college.
- noun A class of clothing sizes for girls and slender women.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Younger; not as old as another.
- Younger or lower in standing, as in a profession, especially the bar: as, a junior counsel; a junior partner in a firm or company.
- In American colleges and schools, pertaining to the third year of the course, the next below the senior or last year; in institutions having a three years' course, usually pertaining to the first year (the second being called the middle year): as, the junior class; junior students.
- noun A person younger than another.
- noun One of less experience or inferior standing in his profession than another, who is called his senior; one employed as the subordinate of another, especially at the bar.
- noun In American colleges and seminaries, a member of the junior class; a student in the junior year.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A younger person.
- noun One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges and four-year high schools, 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. - adjective Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated Jr.
- adjective Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into a position or office
- adjective Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; ; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See
Junior , n., 2. - adjective Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
- adjective of or relating to the third year of a four-year term; -- used of the third or next to final year in a U. S. high school or college. See
junior {2}, n..
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable
Younger . - adjective not comparable Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year
high school (eleventh grade ) oruniversity . - adjective comparable Low in
rank ; having asubordinate role, job, or situation. - noun A younger person.
- noun A third-year student at a high school or university.
- noun A name
suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name. Abbreviation:Jr.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
- adjective used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
- noun a son who has the same first name as his father
- noun a third-year undergraduate
- noun term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male
- adjective including or intended for youthful persons
- noun the younger of two persons
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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When the junior senator from Wyoming brandishes a piece of paper on the Senate floor (where, as a character points out, libel laws do not apply) to proclaim, "I have here in my hand ..." he clearly calls out the glowering ghost of the junior senator from Wisconsin.
At 50, a D.C. Novel With Legs Scott Simon 2009
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Jimmy junior is also surprised to find out he has a sister who is adopted and African-American.
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The Royal Ontario Museum had just begun a special program for what they called junior members and my mother signed me up at age of nine and I believe I came back you know at the end of the first session and said, I could barely pronounce the word, "I'm going to be an archaeologist."
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I came back from school and I had grown up in what they called the junior auxiliary of the Episcopal church and I took the leadership of the junior auxiliary.
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In my own experience, the years of what we called junior high were mostly fun, a time of growing up and adjusting to crazy hormones.
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Way back in junior high I did the science fair thing on deer behavior, I think I did a lot of stuff on moon phases, but I also remember doing a rattling demonstration somewhere in there ... funny thing is, I've never actually rattled while I was hunting.
Proud Dad Alert! 2009
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I remember watching it in junior high as I got ready for school each morning.
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I went until I was in junior high and then I became too cool for such things.
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One year in junior high we were assigned to keep a nightly journal.
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Way back in junior high I did the science fair thing on deer behavior, I think I did a lot of stuff on moon phases, but I also remember doing a rattling demonstration somewhere in there ... funny thing is, I've never actually rattled while I was hunting.
Proud Dad Alert! 2009
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