junior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːniə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuniɚ/
rhymes: -uːniə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more junior
form: most junior
form: juniour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.
Senses: glosses: Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
examples: text: Far less likely to intimidate your junior genealogist is the Internet, with its databases, message and bulletin boards, online collections, and more. Now is also the time to introduce your children to older relatives, who can be valuable resources and provide precious information.
ref: 2003, Karen Frisch, Creating Junior Genealogists, →ISBN:
text: Humorous books for junior readers are often ignored by the critical community, due, in part, to what Milner Davis describes as a “conventional bias against comic genres” (1996: 101), and I consider this a serious oversight within the field of children's literature.
ref: 2010, Julie Cross, Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature, →ISBN, page 1:
text: There she is: Lady Margaret Hall, eight years junior to me, exhibitioner where I was top scholar, and reading French. (Not veterinary science.)
ref: 2011, Julian Barnes, Knowing French (Storycuts), →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2012, Junior Golf in Pictures: The Junior Golfer's Handbook, →ISBN:
text: Instead of going to the unit I walked in the opposite direction towards the medicine lecture room with various thoughts going through my mind — most of them were positive as this was a great opportunity to practise what I had learnt so far and should have a good impact on students who were 3–4 years junior to me and not known to me.
ref: 2013, Krishna Mohan Mishra, Me and Medicine, →ISBN, page 111:
qualifier: often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun
glosses: Younger.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
glosses: Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
examples: text: Only about half of the schools had a single closing time, while the others organized different times for their infant and junior children.
ref: 2018 October 3, Maurice Galton, Helen Patrick, Curriculum Provision in the Small Primary School, Routledge, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: infant
glosses: Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
examples: text: junior hockey
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.
Derived terms: junior bridesmaid
junior college
junior doctor
junior high
junior higher
junior high school
junior infant
junioritis
juniority
junior jump
junior miner
junior minister
junior miss
juniormost
juniorness
junior right
junior school
juniorship
junior soldier
junior soph
junior synonym
junior varsity
juvenile
lieutenant junior grade
major junior
prejunior
rear admiral junior grade
rejuvenate
subjunior
young
youth