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junior (iou)



junior adjective & noun. ME.
[Latin (for juvenior) compar. of juvenis young: see -IOR. Cf. SENIOR.]
A. adjective.
After a person's name: that is the younger of two bearing the same name in a family, esp. a son of the same name as his father. Also (now rare) = MINOR adjective 1b. ME.
Dickens Snawley junior..I'll warm you with a severe thrashing.
Of a thing or (now rare) a person: of later rise or appearance in history, of later date; more modern. (Foll. by to). L16.
R. Bentley The Cretan civilization was apparently junior to that of the Nile valley.
a. Belonging to youth or earlier life; youthful, juvenile. E17-L18.
b. Intended for children or young people. Also, smaller than the normal size. M19.
Practical Motorist A 'junior' frame saw is a useful back-up.
Of lesser age or standing or more recent appointment, of lower position on a scale, (foll. by to). In N. American colleges and schools and Scottish universities: belonging to the second last year of a course (in Scotland spec. of an honours degree course). M18.
G. Greene I had published a first novel, and I found myself a junior guest..at a great publisher's do. Sunday Express The most junior boy in the house had to do a solo spot.
Special collocations: junior barrister = sense B.2 below. junior college US: offering a two-year course, esp. in preparation for completion at a senior college. junior combination room a junior common-room at Cambridge University. junior common-room (at certain universities) a common-room for undergraduates, the undergraduates entitled to use a common-room. junior high school N. Amer.: intermediate between elementary school and high school. junior LIGHTWEIGHT. junior MIDDLEWEIGHT. junior miss (orig. US) a young teenage girl. junior OPTIME. junior school the lower forms in some fee-paying schools; Hist. a State school for children in the younger age-range, roughly between 7 and 11. junior WELTERWEIGHT.
b. noun.
A person who is younger than or junior to another (freq. after possess.). More generally (chiefly US), a child, esp. a young boy (freq. as a form of address). M16.
B. Neil His mother had run off with a man nine years her junior. Which? Be prepared to pay more for..the top stylist than..for the less experienced junior.
A barrister who has not taken silk. M19.
juniorate noun in the Society of Jesus, a two-year course for junior members preparatory to entering the priesthood, a seminary for those taking this course M19.
juniorship noun the condition of a junior, juniority L18.