Meanings
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1
adj
Younger or lower in rank or position.
She started as a junior member of the team.
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2
noun
A person who is younger than another.
He married a woman four years his junior.
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3
adj
For or involving young people, especially in sport.
He plays in the local junior hockey league.
Thesaurus
Word family
Forms
juniors
Derived forms
junioritisjuniorityjuniormostjuniornessjuniorshipjuvenileprejuniorrejuvenatesubjunioryoungyouth
Common collocations
Etymology
From junior. The town in West Virginia was established on November 13, 1897, and named after Henry G. Davis Jr. (1871–1896), a son of United States Senator from West Virginia Henry G. Davis (1823–1916) who had been drowned at sea off the Atlantic Coast of South Africa while returning home on the steamship Munkesenton.