junior

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: jun=ior

CIDE DICTIONARY

junior, a. [L. contr. fr. juvenior, compar. of juvenis young. See Juvenile.].

•  Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated Jr.  [1913 Webster]

  " Junior is applied to distinguish the younger of two persons bearing the same name in the same family, and is opposed to senior or elder. Commonly applied to a son who has the same Christian name as his father."  [1913 Webster]
•  Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into a position or office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain; the junior Senator from New York.  [1913 Webster]
•  Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; the junior baseball league; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2.  [1913 Webster]
•  Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.  [1913 Webster]

  "Our first studies and junior endeavors."  [1913 Webster]
•  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..  [WordNet 1.5]

junior, n. 

•  A younger person.  [1913 Webster]

  "His junior she, by thirty years."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

junior, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 less advanced in age.
2 (foll. by to) inferior in age, standing, or position.
3 the younger (esp. appended to a name for distinction from an older person of the same name).
4 of less or least standing; of the lower or lowest position (junior partner).
5 Brit. (of a school) having pupils in a younger age-range, usu. 7 - 11.
6 US of the year before the final year at university, high school, etc.
--n.
1 a junior person.
2 one's inferior in length of service etc.
3 a junior student.
4 a barrister who is not a QC.
5 US colloq. a young male child, esp. in relation to his family.

Idiom

junior college US a college offering a two-year course esp. in preparation for completion at senior college. junior common (or combination) room Brit.
1 a room for social use by the junior members of a college.
2 the junior members collectively. junior lightweight see LIGHTWEIGHT. junior middleweight see MIDDLEWEIGHT.

Derivative

juniority n.

Etymology

L, compar. of juvenis young

THESAURUS

junior

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

ROGET THESAURUS

junior

Youth

N youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.

Learner

N learner, scholar, student, pupil, apprentice, prentice, journeyman, articled clerk, beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur, abecedarian, alphabetarian, alumnus, eleve, recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer, seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner, debutant, intern, resident, schoolboy, fresh, freshman, frosh, junior soph, junior, senior soph, senior, sophister, sophomore, questionist, undergraduate, graduate student, law student, medical student, pre-med, post-doctoral student, post-doc, matriculated student, part-time student, night student, auditor, class, grade, seminar, form, remove, pupilage, disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte, fellow-student, condisciple, school, in statu pupillari, in leading strings, practise makes perfect.