Junior

Adjective

 * 1)  Younger.
 * 2) * 1939 P. G. Wodehouse, "Uncle Fred in the Springtime":
 * The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a high school or university.
 * 2)  Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.

Related terms

 * juvenile
 * rejuvenate


 * young
 * youth

Noun

 * 1) A younger person.
 * four years his junior
 * 1) A third-year student at a high school or university.
 * 2) A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name. Abbreviation: Jr.

Antonyms

 * senior

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
< junior:, contr. of juvenior:, compar. of iuvenis:; see juvenile.

Translations

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