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JUNIOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The younger of two persons
Example:
she is two years my junior
Classified under:
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 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:
A son who has the same first name as his father
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Junior" is a kind of...):
boy; son (a male human offspring)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male
Example:
look here, junior, it's none of your business
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
Example:
a third-year student
Synonyms:
junior; next-to-last; third-year
Classified under:
Similar:
intermediate (lying between two extremes in time or space or state)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Including or intended for youthful persons
Example:
junior fashions
Classified under:
Similar:
immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
Classified under:
Adjectives
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)
Context examples:
Is he your junior?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To provide support to mid-career health-professional doctorates or equivalent who are typically at the Associate Professor level or the equivalent for protected time to devote to patient-oriented research and to act as research mentors primarily for clinical residents, clinical fellows and/or junior clinical faculty.
(Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research, NCI Thesaurus)
This special award is aimed at fostering the research careers of outstanding, junior, basic, clinical, and behavioral scientists who are committed to developing research programs highly relevant to the understanding of human biology and human disease as it relates to the etiology, pathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
(Howard Temin Award, NCI Thesaurus)
It is known that Mr. Jonas Oldacre had received a late visitor in his bedroom upon that night, and the stick found has been identified as the property of this person, who is a young London solicitor named John Hector McFarlane, junior partner of Graham and McFarlane, of 426, Gresham Buildings, E.C.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“More than a mile off, Mr. Tiffey,” interposed a junior.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And yet here we find them in the pocket of a dead junior clerk in the heart of London.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jonathan asks me to send his 'respectful duty,' but I do not think that is good enough from the junior partner of the important firm Hawkins & Harker; and so, as you love me, and he loves me, and I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb, I send you simply his 'love' instead.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It often grieved her to the heart to think of the contrast between them; to think that where nature had made so little difference, circumstances should have made so much, and that her mother, as handsome as Lady Bertram, and some years her junior, should have an appearance so much more worn and faded, so comfortless, so slatternly, so shabby.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Among the votaries of TERPSICHORE, who disported themselves until Sol gave warning for departure, Wilkins Micawber, Esquire, Junior, and the lovely and accomplished Miss Helena, fourth daughter of Doctor Mell, were particularly remarkable.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At Piccadilly Circus I discharged my cab, and walked westward; beyond the Junior Constitutional I came across the house described, and was satisfied that this was the next of the lairs arranged by Dracula.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
