junior
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
hobbies
law
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.
Inflected forms:
form: more junior
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most junior
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: juniour
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: juniors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: juniors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: junioring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: juniored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: juniored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
not-comparable
usually
gloss: Younger.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: 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.
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.
There she is: Lady Margaret Hall, eight years junior to me, exhibitioner where I was top scholar, and reading French. (Not veterinary science.)
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.
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.
gloss: Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: 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 […]
gloss: Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
usually
gloss: Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
not-comparable
usually
examples: Only about half of the schools had a single closing time, while the others organized different times for their infant and junior children.
gloss: Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
usually
examples: junior hockey
gloss: Synonym of younger.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: "Not bad for the junior hand," commented Crediton.
gloss: A younger person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: four years his junior
Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.
The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.
gloss: A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A clothing size for girls or women.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A third-year student at a high school or university.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
countable
gloss: A student in a junior school or the second part of a primary school.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
examples: My son is now a junior at another, bigger school; but our hopes for his schooling have really remained the same. Of course, we want him to be able to read and keep up at maths but the fact that he is still so enthusiastic about his school and his teacher and his classmates
gloss: A junior barrister.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To work in a junior role (on something).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Greenspan had juniored the Demeter murder trial with defence lawyer Joe Pomerant and was, by 1980, well on his way to becoming the most renowned criminal lawyer in Canada.
Stephens brought with him a general manager, Bob Rodgers. Bob […] never let adversity faze him. He was always in charge. Mr. Rodgers could dance just enough to do some junioring, but acted primarily as a sales manager.
gloss: To have juniors (more advanced students) assist in instructing (beginners).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 2006, Jim and Leann Rathbone, James Mitose and the Path of Kenpo
The technique of "junioring" beginners and the first five lesson plan and private lessons were adaptations developed at that time. They are credited with the Americanization of Karate as a business as well as a martial art.
Derived words: 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
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