junior

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   including or intended for youthful persons

   a junior sports league

2. 2
   noun

   the younger of two persons

   My colleague is several years my junior.

3. 3
   noun

   term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male

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

4. 4
   adj

   Younger.

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   Belonging 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 […]

6. 6
   adj

   Of 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.

7. 7
   adj

   Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.

   junior hockey

8. 8
   noun

   A younger person.

   four years his junior

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.