Junior

Quick meaning: Junior is an adjective meaning (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.

Meaning

(comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.

More Meanings

1. (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
2. (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
3. (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
4. (not comparable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
5. (sports, US, Canada) Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.
6. (card games) Synonym of younger.
7. (countable) A younger person.

Example Sentences

junior hockey

Only about half of the schools had a single closing time, while the others organized different times for their infant and junior children.

There she is: Lady Margaret Hall, eight years junior to me, exhibitioner where I was top scholar, and reading French. (Not veterinary science.)

Though our first Studies and junior Endeavours may stile us Peripateticks, Stoicks, or Academicks, yet I perceive the wisest Heads prove at last, almost all Scepticks […]

Word Forms

• juniour
• juniors
• junioring
• juniored

Synonyms for junior

Depending on context, synonyms include younger, subordinate, inferior, lowly, immature, lower.

Antonyms for junior

Common opposites include senior.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include younger, young, subordinate, subaltern, petty, inferior.

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