junior
UK /ˈd͡ʒuːniə/ · US /ˈd͡ʒuniɚ/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms juniors junioring juniored juniour
- adjective (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation. “He uses the leverage of seniority with the more junior employees.”
- adjective (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
- adjective (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
- adjective (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
- adjective (not comparable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
- adjective (sports, US, Canada) Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience. “junior hockey”
- adjective (card games) Synonym of younger.
- noun (countable) A younger person. “four years his junior”
- noun A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
- noun (uncountable) A clothing size for girls or women.
- noun (countable, chiefly US, Philippines) A third-year student at a high school or university.
- noun (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in a junior school or the second part of a primary school.
- noun (countable, law) A junior barrister.
- verb (ambitransitive) To work in a junior role (on something).
- verb (transitive) To have juniors (more advanced students) assist in instructing (beginners).
- proper noun A town in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States.
- proper noun A male given name, from a nickname for someone with the title Jr. (junior).
- proper noun Used as a generic name for a son.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.
The town in West Virginia was established on November 13, 1897, and named after Henry G. Davis Jr. (1871–1896), a son of United States Senator from West Virginia Henry G. Davis (1823–1916) who had been drowned at sea off the Atlantic Coast of South Africa while returning home on the steamship Munkesenton.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Less advanced in age than another; younger.
- adjective Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.
- noun A younger person.
- noun 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.
Etymology [L. contr. fr. juvenior, compar. of juvenis young. See Juvenile.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “junior”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details