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.
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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.
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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.
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