junior

Forms

1.Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
- He uses the leverage of seniority with the more junior employees.
2.Younger.
- A handbook for junior golfers covering a wide range of golfing instruction and information with over 250 photographs of juniors learning, playing, practicing and enjoying the game of golf.
3.Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
4.Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.

1.A younger person.
- The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.
- Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.
2.A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
3.A clothing size for girls or women.
4.A third-year student at a high school or university.

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Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.