English

Proper noun

Junior

1. A town in West Virginia.
2. A male given name.

German

Noun

Junior m ‎(genitive Juniors, plural Junioren)

1. (name affix or age class in sports or (often jocular) son) junior

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• juniour (obsolete)

Adjective

junior ‎(comparative more junior, superlative most junior)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
   • 2003, Karen Frisch, Creating Junior Genealogists, ISBN 1593310293:

     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.

   • 2010, Julie Cross, Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature, ISBN 1136839879, page 1:

     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.

   • 2011, Julian Barnes, Knowing French (Storycuts), ISBN 1448128757:

     There she is: Lady Margaret Hall, eight years junior to me, exhibitioner where I was top scholar, and reading French. (Not veterinary science.)

   • 2012, Junior Golf in Pictures: The Junior Golfer's Handbook, ISBN 0615722385:

     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.

   • 2013, Krishna Mohan Mishra, Me and Medicine, ISBN 1491802820, page 111:

     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.

2. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
3. (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
4. Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     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 […]

Translations

Related terms

Noun

junior ‎(plural juniors)

1. A younger person.

   four years his junior

   • Angela Brazil

     Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.

   • 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.

2. A third-year student at a high school or university.
3. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name. Abbreviation: Jr.

Antonyms

• senior

Translations

External links

• junior at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Noun

junior m, f ‎(plural juniors)

1. (sports) junior

Adjective

junior m, f ‎(plural juniors)

1. junior (all senses)

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin iunior ‎(“younger”), from Latin iuvenis ‎(“young”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjuniʲor]
• Hyphenation: ju‧ni‧or

Noun

junior

1. (sports) junior

Declension

Synonyms

• ifjúsági

References

1. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Latin

Adjective

jūnior ‎(comparative of juvenis)

1. Alternative form of iūnior

Inflection

Third declension, comparative variant

References

• junior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press