JUNIOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Junior mean? 

• JUNIOR (noun)
  The noun JUNIOR has 4 senses:

1. term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male

2. a third-year undergraduate

3. the younger of two persons

4. a son who has the same first name as his father

  Familiarity information: JUNIOR used as a noun is uncommon.

• JUNIOR (adjective)
  The adjective JUNIOR has 3 senses:

1. younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service

2. used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college

3. including or intended for youthful persons

  Familiarity information: JUNIOR used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUNIOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

look here, junior, it's none of your business

Hypernyms ("junior" is a kind of...):

arriviste; nouveau-riche; parvenu; upstart (a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A third-year undergraduate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("junior" is a kind of...):

lowerclassman; underclassman (an undergraduate who is not yet a senior)

Derivation:

junior (younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The younger of two persons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

she is two years my junior

Hypernyms ("junior" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

junior (younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A son who has the same first name as his father

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jnr; Jr; Junior

Hypernyms ("Junior" is a kind of...):

boy; son (a male human offspring)

• JUNIOR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service

Similar:

junior-grade; lower-ranking; lowly; petty; secondary; subaltern (inferior in rank or status)

minor (of the younger of two boys with the same family name)

jr.; younger (used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father)

Also:

immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)

subordinate (subject or submissive to authority or the control of another)

Attribute:

higher rank; higher status; senior status; seniority (higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service)

Antonym:

senior (older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service)

Derivation:

junior (the younger of two persons)

junior (a third-year undergraduate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college

Synonyms:

junior; next-to-last; third-year

Context example:

a third-year student

Similar:

intermediate (lying between two extremes in time or space or state)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Including or intended for youthful persons

Context example:

junior fashions

Similar:

immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)

 Context examples 

He became a lawyer, and hardly was he back in the office when father took him in as junior partner.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Billington junior, a nice lad, met me at the station, and brought me to his father's house, where they had decided that I must stay the night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the birth of a second son, my junior by seven years, my parents gave up entirely their wandering life and fixed themselves in their native country.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Uriah, Traddles, and I, as the junior part of the company, went down last, how we could.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had a wife about fifteen years his junior, but no children; and they entered the neighbourhood with the usual fair report of being very respectable, agreeable people.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They are actually found upon the person of this junior clerk, Cadogan West.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But even fitter seniors had more lapses in language than their juniors, the findings showed.

(Exercise May Help Seniors with Word, Memory Problems, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

My sister, who is more than ten years my junior, was left to the guardianship of my mother's nephew, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and myself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A satellite developed by junior high school children from Ubatuba, São Paulo state, was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, on Friday (Dec. 9).

(Satellite made by Brazilian junior high students launched in Japan, Agência Brasil)