junior

comparative more junior · superlative most junior · alternative juniour

1. comparablenot comparableusuallyLow in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.

   He uses the leverage of seniority with the more junior employees.

2. not comparableusuallyoften preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a nounYounger.

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

   2011, Julian Barnes, Knowing French (Storycuts), →ISBN

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   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.

   2003, Karen Frisch, Creating Junior Genealogists, →ISBN

   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.

   2010, Julie Cross, Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature, →ISBN, page 1

   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.

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

   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.

   2013, Krishna Mohan Mishra, Me and Medicine, →ISBN, page 111

3. not comparableusuallyBelonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.

   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 […]

   1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC

4. USnot comparableusuallyOf or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
5. CommonwealthIrelandUKnot comparableusuallyOf or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.

   Only about half of the schools had a single closing time, while the others organized different times for their infant and junior children.

   2018 October 3, Maurice Galton, Helen Patrick, Curriculum Provision in the Small Primary School, Routledge, →ISBN

6. CanadaUSnot comparableusuallyhobbiesOf or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.

   junior hockey

7. not comparableusuallycard gamesSynonym of younger.

   "Not bad for the junior hand," commented Crediton.

   1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

   Synonyms: younger

plural juniors

1. countableA younger person.

   four years his junior

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

   1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle

   The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.

   1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

   Antonyms: senior

2. countableuncountableA name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
3. uncountableA clothing size for girls or women.
4. PhilippinesUScountableA third-year student at a high school or university.
5. CommonwealthIrelandUKcountableA student in a junior school or the second part of a primary school.

   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

   2013 December 19, Michelle MacGrath, The Art of Peaceful Teaching in the Primary School: Improving Behaviour and Preserving Motivation, Routledge, →ISBN

6. countablelawA junior barrister.

present singular third person juniors · participle present junioring · participle past juniored · past juniored

1. ambitransitiveTo work in a junior role (on something).

   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.

   2013, Mick Lowe, Conspiracy of Brothers, page 325

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   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.

   2016, Rainier George Weiner, Living on Lifesavers

2. transitiveTo have juniors (more advanced students) assist in instructing (beginners).

   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.

1. A town in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States.
2. A male given name, from a nickname for someone with the title Jr. (junior).
   1. Used as a generic name for a son.

      It’s Dad’s day; let Junior pick up the tab.

      2010 June 12, Ron Mikulak, “Dining calendar: Father’s Day dining specials”, in The Courier Journal, metro edition, Louisville, Ky., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Scene” section, page 16, column 4

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      How far would you go with your own child? How far would you want to permit others to go with theirs?

      2005 October 4, John Tierney, “What To Do When Junior Wants To Be Technologically Enhanced”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2019

      He [Jimmy Goodson] also passed along some water-saving tips to customers from residents Ingrid and Doug Scott. “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down. Urine is a sterile liquid and the toilet is not there for the purpose of Fido getting a drink or Junior floating his rubber ducky,” the couple said.

      2015 September 3, Dawn Gagnon, “Castine suffers water shortage: Town buying from Bucksport”, in Bangor Daily News, state edition, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B2, column 2