[syn: junior(a), third-year, next-to-last]
3. including or intended for youthful persons;
- Example: "a junior sports league"
- Example: "junior fashions"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Junior \Jun"ior\, n.
1. A younger person.
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His junior she, by thirty years. --Byron.
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2. Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in
American colleges and four-year high schools, one in the
third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year
being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in
the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a
three years' course.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Junior \Jun"ior\ (j[=u]n"y[~e]r; 277), a. [L. contr. fr.
juvenior, compar. of juvenis young. See Juvenile.]
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1. Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated
Jr.
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Note: Junior is applied to distinguish the younger of two
persons bearing the same name in the same family, and
is opposed to senior or elder. Commonly applied to a
son who has the same Christian name as his father.
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2. Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into
a position or office; as, a junior partner; junior
counsel; junior captain; the junior Senator from New York.
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3. Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing;
as, the junior class; the junior baseball league; of or
pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior,
n., 2.
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4. Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
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Our first studies and junior endeavors. --Sir T.
Browne.
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5. of or relating to the third year of a four-year term; --
used of the third or next to final year in a U. S. high
school or college. See junior[2], n..
Syn: third-year.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
junior
adj 1: younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or
service [ant: senior]
2: used of the third or next to final year in United States high
school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"
[syn: junior(a), third-year, next-to-last]
3: including or intended for youthful persons; "a junior sports
league"; "junior fashions"
n 1: term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male;
"look here, junior, it's none of your business"
2: a third-year undergraduate
3: the younger of two persons; "she is two years my junior"
4: a son who has the same first name as his father [syn:
Junior, Jr, Jnr]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "junior":
adolescent, after, assistant, attendant, baby, cadet, cog, common,
commonality, commonalty, consecutive, creature, demeaning,
disadvantaged, employee, ensuing, fledgling, flunky, follower,
following, freshman, helper, hoi polloi, hopeful, humble,
in the shade, infant, inferior, infra dig, juvenal, juvenile,
later, less, lesser, lightweight, lineal, low, lower, lower class,
lower orders, lowly, masses, midshipman, minor, modest, ordinary,
pawn, plebe, posterior, pubescent, puisne, right-hand man, sapling,
second fiddle, second rank, second string, secondary, senior,
sequent, servant, servile, slip, soph, sophomore, sprig, stripling,
sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subsequent, subservient,
succeeding, successive, teenager, teener, teenybopper, third rank,
third string, third stringer, undergrad, undergraduate, underling,
underprivileged, understrapper, upperclassman, vulgar, yes-man,
young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling,
youngster, youth
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Junior, WV -- U.S. town in West Virginia
Population (2000): 450
Housing Units (2000): 202
Land area (2000): 0.297856 sq. miles (0.771443 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.022755 sq. miles (0.058935 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.320611 sq. miles (0.830378 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42244
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 38.977379 N, 79.950300 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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