Definition of junior in English:

junior

adjective ˈdʒuːnɪəˈdʒunjər

1For or denoting young or younger people.
junior tennis
Example sentencesExamples
- It is going to be a five-year project and I want to give back whatever I can to Swedish junior tennis.
- Much of the that money will be spent on rugby education programs, junior clubs and elite development of younger players.
- The village has a busy sports and social scene with football, cricket and tennis clubs, plus junior football teams and uniformed clubs for the youngsters.
- He was once a nationally-ranked Canadian junior tennis player.
- He then became the youngest ever junior world champion the following year.
- The club is continuing to expand the junior section and welcomes young people who would like to take up the game.
- Wildlife Watch is the UK's leading action club for young environmentalists and junior members have the opportunity to collect badges.
- The club is supportive of local junior golfers by inviting young players and high school students to play the course free of charge.
- Students who had set up and run a mini company under the junior achievement young enterprise programme were eligible to enter the competition.
- Two young players were brought on for their first experience of junior football.
- Canadians also showcased a strong cadre of younger skaters in the junior events.
- The family spent their summers at Ardmore in Waterford, where O'Callaghan is known to have played in junior tennis tournaments.
- There is a star rising, and rising fast, in local junior tennis.
- Matt and Chris are junior county tennis champions.
- She pointed out that it would be encouraging to see young people getting involved and that perhaps a junior association could be formed.
- The junior team, with a very young side, were defeated last week in an away game to Barrowhouse in Division 3.
- Sporting activities have not been neglected, with events ranging from junior tennis to a South African title boxing match.
- At 11, she became the youngest Belgian junior champion.
- Last Friday a junior tennis tournament was cancelled as a result.
- For the older boys and girls there were quad bikes and for the young horse enthusiasts there was the keenly contested junior hunt chase, and pony club games.
Synonyms
younger, youngest
1. 1.1British For or denoting schoolchildren between the ages of about 7 and 11.
  junior pupils
  Example sentencesExamples
  These schools normally admit pupils from their junior department to senior school without sitting a further examination.
  Most of the competitors were aged 11 to 19 but pupils from six primary schools took part in a junior section.
  The funds were raised at the Elder Avenue school after junior pupils took part in a sponsored stay awake for 12 hours.
  These sessions are also open to junior infants in primary school where it enables parents to access employment or training.
  Oldfield House Unit meets the needs of junior pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
  Education bosses have proposed to build the new 210-place primary school on the existing junior site by September next year, to remove 208 places at the two schools.
  It was a fun way of returning to school after the half-term holiday for the pupils at the federated school that has its junior section at East Kennett and its infants' classes at Lockeridge.
  The trust added that junior pupils tend to be driven to school, whereas pupils at secondary school are more likely to walk or take the bus.
  More than 60 junior children from the school will be doing different activities every week for the next year.
  Parents of pupils at St Peter's Primary School, which was close to the site of the incident, were advised to pick up their children from the junior section of the school which was worst affected.
  In the summer you can see almost every junior pupil on the village bowling green at an after school club.
  As this was during school hours, the junior members could not take part.
  The May fair raised more than £1, 500, which will help to pay for the construction of an adventure trail in the school's junior playground.
  The school's new junior wing opened in January and the tree planting has now marked the end of its successful first year as a primary.
  A statement from the school said Mr Munro had achieved what he had set out to do, having overseen its transition from an all-age boarding school to a junior day school with a new nursery.
  The event gives the junior pupils from primary schools in and around Appleby a taste of grammar school life.
  Almost 100 children from the junior section of the school on Edensor Road took part on Wednesday.
2. 1.2North American Of or for students in the third year of a course lasting four years at college or high school.
  his junior year in college
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like him, she was lost somewhere between her sophomore and junior years of college, working full-time to pay for an apartment in the city.
  Probably the best time of my life was my junior year in college, 1997, at Rice University.
  Both Mr.T and Johnny passed their junior year of College.
  It helps to have lived in Tokyo for a year, as I did my junior year of college, to gain maximum enjoyment from this book.
  I asked myself this question three years ago when I attended my first convention during my junior year of college.
  She first visited it as a Smith College student during her junior year abroad in Geneva.
  Zimmermann married his high school sweetheart, Ann Bagsby, during his junior year at college and joined her fundamentalist Church of Christ.
  During the summer before my junior year of college, my sister announced her engagement to a man she had met in college.
  Most successful applicants will have taken at least basic journalism courses and have completed at least their junior year of college by summer 2000.
  When I was finishing my junior year at college, I began thinking about the path I should follow after I graduated.
  Sophomore and junior years of college, I went out with a guy named Mark.
  My junior year in college, I remained in a residence hall, but my friends started moving into houses and apartments.
  My sixth and worst episode struck at the end of my junior year of college when I was overwrought about a recent breakup with a boyfriend and exhausted from school.
  Alex was their older brother, who was in his junior year in College, a whole four years older than Colleen.
  And so, before returning to college for my junior year, I ventured up the cliff to give it a try.
  They were on the road because it's during the summer after a high school player's junior year that college coaches best identify scholarship prospects.
  My awkward phase lasted for 9 long years and only began to whittle away during my junior year of college.
  Williamson, who left college after his junior year, is raw when it comes to running routes, and he had trouble catching the ball during some offseason practices.
  I first read this in my junior year in college, when I was studying in London for a semester.
  I took a Diaries and Journals class in college my junior year during the winter term.
3. 1.3postpositive, in names Denoting the younger of two who have the same name in a family, especially a son as distinct from his father.
  John F. Kennedy Junior
  Synonyms
  the Younger
  British minor
  North American II
2Low or lower in rank or status.
a junior minister
part of my function is to supervise those junior to me
Example sentencesExamples
- One of our most recent modules for junior hospital doctors is on the treatment of patients with status epilepticus.
- Further problems arose when the health authorities made a highly critical assessment and withdrew the surgical unit's status as a training facility for junior doctors.
- She has worked hard to reach her rank, and junior officers do what she tells them, she says.
- Scathing reports on the surgical department then led to the surgical unit temporarily losing its training status for junior doctors.
- Somewhere in the junior ranks of the new government is that figure.
- Already, ministers and junior ministers must give up their council seats upon joining the Cabinet or junior minister ranks.
- The potential gains will include former ministers, junior ministers, TDs, and existing senators and other prominent candidates.
- In the Marines, he was a nobody with a silver bar, too junior to matter to staffers, too senior to fit in with the enlisted grunts his own age.
- From early morning the ministers, junior ministers, TD, senators and MEPs arrived to hear how they were going to turn the Nice campaign around.
- Hospitals including the Royal, City and Ulster need to achieve a quota of junior doctors to maintain their teaching status in conjunction with Queen's University.
- I've been convinced that some of the young sergeants and junior officers never surrendered.
- Her ministerial appointments amounted to only eight women, only one of whom rose higher than the ranks of junior minister.
- The great John Dowling and so many other Kerry greats came through the junior ranks.
- In her position as a clinical lecturer, Dr Khine would have been very junior to Professor van Velzen.
- If the top level politician remains too long in the saddle, the junior ranks may stagnate.
- The constant rotation of junior personnel through the ranks makes this unlikely, as does the oath of office sworn to by every soldier and officer.
- Much of the decline in the total number of economists was recorded in the junior ranks of associate lecturer and lecturer, although the number of male lecturers is unchanged over the four years.
- Because you cannot necessarily always wait for a very junior rank to put themselves forward.
- But with Tony Blair and Michael Howard now representing their respective parties, he is suddenly very junior to both of his rivals.
- Because that is an aspect we have understood makes staff and junior ranks very unhappy.
Synonyms
low-ranking, lower-ranking, subordinate, sub-, lesser, lower, minor, secondary, inferior
beneath, under

noun ˈdʒuːnɪəˈdʒunjər

1A person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else.
he's five years her junior
Example sentencesExamples
- Why would Summer, almost twenty years her junior, and university educated, be attracted to Bridget?
- But this guy was alright, although I think he's probably four or five years my junior.
- Fisher, too, says that, at 47, he has been told he has the health status of someone 20 years his junior.
- Claudia, 70, works out with a trainer, still wears killer heels and is dating a man 20 years her junior.
- She was fifteen, nineteen years Kit's junior, when they married in 1843.
- Sixteen years his junior, Tamara de Lempicka made her name by her mid-twenties.
- Abelard was a famous teacher and Heloise, 22 years his junior.
- I wondered, though, how embarrassed Casey would feel about being taught by a junior; someone a year younger than him.
- Serves him right for marrying a girl forty years his junior against her will.
- Instead, children were simply held back in classes with pupils many years their junior, through what has been described as a ‘sink or swim policy’.
- Most promising seemed the suggestion that he should marry Mary, queen of Scots, five years his junior, with the prospect of uniting the two kingdoms.
- Her husband Lee Hall - a Geordie five years her junior who leapt to international fame writing Billy Elliot, the story of a boy ballet dancer - leads an equally frantic life.
- A reconstruction of Carlo's final moments, however, reveals he was killed by a terrified youth three years his junior.
- My sister Suzanna was two years older than me, and Philippa, the baby, was five years my junior, which meant I had to look after her a lot, when Mum, who was a chef, was on a job.
- In 1901 he married a second time, a science teacher called Evangeline Land, seventeen years his junior and the daughter of a prominent Detroit dentist.
- There she would encounter the future Queen, five years her junior, who entertained the battered troops at the piano.
- With five marriages - the last with a guy 14 years her junior - under her garter belt, you might say Gibson doesn't believe in happily ever after.
- In 1891 he met Lord Alfred Douglas, a young man sixteen years his junior.
- Winifred, five years his junior, moved to Keighley from Newcastle in 1933 and worked at Wolsey's wool mill.
- In 1966 a gate charge of 20 cents was introduced, with juniors up for five cents and those under 14 admitted free.
1. 1.1British A child attending a junior school.
  first-year juniors
  the curriculum of top juniors
  Example sentencesExamples
  He comes to school with his Mammy as she is teaching the juniors.
  Play facilities specially constructed to cater for juniors and toddlers will be built next to Chiltern Primary School.
  But last year there were only 149 infants and 266 juniors.
  The inspectors recommended a partition to split the juniors from the infants or better still a separate classroom to be created.
  Aimed at infants and juniors up to year 5, the site provides fortnightly challenges.
  There are prizes for two age groups - infants and juniors.
  It brings together juniors and infants on one site, rather than a quarter of a mile apart on opposite sides of busy Bag Lane.
  Noeleen's juniors number eleven in total and are divided between junior, senior infants and second class.
  Now it's only Sunday mornings, weddings, funerals, a carol service the week before Christmas and an occasional harvest festival for the local C of E infants and juniors.
  Only the juniors have a crossing lady, the infant school children have nothing, so please slow down.
  But the money saved by not replacing the retiring head at Carlton will allow each school to afford separate teachers for infants and juniors.
  In the prescribed order infants, toddlers and juniors mounted Matron, were breathed upon, exchanged whispers, and given their Christmas present.
  Teachers, pupils and parents at Brightside Primary School are jubilant about the successes and improvements since the infants and juniors merged two years ago.
  Class sizes for juniors would also reduce, with an average of 25 pupils per teacher, down from the existing norm of 27.
  The buildings will be modernised and refurbished for the 420 infants and juniors with large open teaching spaces with IT facilities.
2. 1.2North American A student in the third year at college or high school.
  with modifier high-school juniors and seniors
  Example sentencesExamples
  Choosing among programs can be quite bewildering for the rising high school junior or senior researching colleges and universities.
  This year, the high school juniors and seniors donned backpacks and rubber boots to help in a turtle conservation project.
  It was an anthology of insightful quotes, designed mainly for juniors and seniors in high school.
  My older son Ryan was away at college while the other was home and a junior in high school.
  Currently, it enrolls approximately 2,500 high school juniors and seniors each year.
  All high school juniors and seniors are eligible to compete.
  On this day, Clemson offered scholarships to six high school juniors.
  Wall Street 101 is open to high school juniors and seniors.
  When she was a junior in high school, she went to the local community college and took Italian and Russian for two years.
  I'm still wondering why he's a junior in highschool when he could be one in college!
  He's a freshman in college and she's a junior in high-school for crying out loud.
  By May of 1999, the foundation offered two scholarship programs and intensive SAT tutoring for high school juniors and seniors.
  It targets high-school juniors whose grades don't reflect their true academic capabilities.
  This fall, she will be dually enrolled at Simon's Rock College as a high school junior and college freshman.
  Why would he fall for introverted high school juniors?
  Scott and I are better, I'm a junior in high school and he's a sophomore in college.
  I've been coming here since I was in middle school, and I'm a junior at wonderful Carmon High School now.
  One of the bloggers is a junior in high school, another is a recent college graduate.
  There are special programs for high school juniors and seniors.
  Probably not, but they can successfully mix high school juniors and high school seniors in the same program.
3. 1.3 (in sport) a young competitor, typically under sixteen or eighteen.
  indoor tennis for juniors
  Example sentencesExamples
  The undefeated juniors lead their group after home wins against the Czech Republic and Malta, and a draw with Denmark.
  As a result of some of the initiatives undertaken by the club, some young juniors are already competing at regional events.
  He added: ‘Clubs are continually trying to recruit juniors wanting to take up the sport and we can offer guidance to them.’
  So certainly with those amateurs and juniors, the administrators need to have a pretty good look at how they timetable different sports.
  It's the first of a number of new initiatives to improve the competition available to Britain's top club athletes, juniors and aspiring internationals.
  Milltown juniors enjoyed a 1-9 to 1-5 victory away to Castledermot in the league recently.
  He was at the helm in an unforgettable 1999 when the juniors went all the way to All-Ireland glory, and who is to say he won't again wave that magic wand to ensure a repeat in 2004?
  Without these juniors, league football could be finished.
  I have seen some of our juniors compete because we've gone on a few trips and things.
  And, as a junior who is two victories away from another Final Four appearance, he said it only makes him more determined to stay at Duke.
  There is coaching for juniors each Wednesday from 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
  The left-hander is Baseball America's 18 th-ranked prospect among juniors.
  Now 18, though still young enough to compete as a junior, Sorrell has broken through.
  The victors will parade at Lansdowne Road on the national holiday and the juniors at the same venue eleven days later.
  Adults train mainly for traditional karate and self defence while juniors train mainly for sport and competition.
  Older juniors and adult fencers compete in the Under-16, Under-19 or Senior divisions.
  Two years before he would guide the international juniors to victory over their American counterparts with 33 points and 14 rebounds.
  His national victory came against fellow juniors - and adults - and he also came second in the national windsurfing Under-17s slalom series.
  A team of five seniors and three juniors will be representing the district this weekend at the NSW Country Championships in Bathurst.
  The juniors suffered a disastrous 7-1 defeat, while the men ceded with the minimum 1-0.
4. 1.4North American informal Used as a nickname or form of address for one's son.
  he said: ‘there's Junior,’ referring to his son
  Example sentencesExamples
  Just because Gramps was a great, public spirited man does not mean that junior, who has grown up with a taste for finery, will be the same.
  The colorful PC is likely to fit junior's bedroom or playroom décor.
  And the big toy chains are hopeful that while mom and dad may cut back on other parts of the family budget, they'll continue to splurge on toys for junior.
  Want to send mom a DVD of junior's first Christmas?
2A person with low rank or status compared with others.
an office junior
Example sentencesExamples
- The drugs are collected from the pharmacy by the specialist chemotherapy nurses and handed to the consultant or to juniors in the consultant's presence.
- I taught it to my junior who did the Blackburn Royal Commission.
- Doctors warn there are not enough consultants to take over from the juniors, which could in turn affect consultants' day work and therefore increase waiting times.
- Neither Mr Syed, the locum consultant urologist nor his junior were present.
- Ms Gold started in her father's business as a junior at the age of 21 and rose through the ranks to become chief executive trying to take the business upmarket along the way.
- I applied for his job, certain that I would get it as I had been his junior for five years, and I was confident I could do the job better than anybody else within the company.
- When Josie began her training juniors were expected to do the cleaning, including scrubbing the floors, and they were gradually taught hairdressing skills.
- A lot of experienced police officers are being bypassed for promotion while juniors are being elevated.
- His junior was unable to attend the court proceedings.
- Brendan started his career in retail at the L&N, Dungarvan in 1983, where he worked as a shop floor assistant and as a junior in the Goods Inward Department.
- It should be compulsory reading for all undergraduates and hospital juniors.
Synonyms
subordinate, inferior, deputy, junior, assistant, adjutant, aide, minion, lackey, flunkey, menial, retainer, vassal, subject, serf, hireling, servant, henchman, myrmidon, right-hand man, right-hand woman, girl friday, man friday, factotum, stooge

Derivatives

juniority

noun dʒuːnɪˈɒrɪti

The Court noted that the clause applied irrespective of the experience and juniority of the employee concerned.
Example sentencesExamples
- However, during the colonial period economic changes gave youth new sources of power that they could use to bypass older systems of bridewealth that old men had used to keep them in a position of juniority.

Origin

Middle English (as an adjective following a family name): from Latin, comparative of juvenis 'young'.

This word was first used as an adjective following a family name. It is a use of a Latin word, the comparative (‘younger’) of juvenis ‘young’.

Rhymes

petunia

Definition of junior in US English:

junior

adjectiveˈjo͞onyərˈdʒunjər

1Of, for, or denoting young or younger people.
junior tennis
Example sentencesExamples
- Two young players were brought on for their first experience of junior football.
- Wildlife Watch is the UK's leading action club for young environmentalists and junior members have the opportunity to collect badges.
- The club is continuing to expand the junior section and welcomes young people who would like to take up the game.
- She pointed out that it would be encouraging to see young people getting involved and that perhaps a junior association could be formed.
- Students who had set up and run a mini company under the junior achievement young enterprise programme were eligible to enter the competition.
- For the older boys and girls there were quad bikes and for the young horse enthusiasts there was the keenly contested junior hunt chase, and pony club games.
- The family spent their summers at Ardmore in Waterford, where O'Callaghan is known to have played in junior tennis tournaments.
- The junior team, with a very young side, were defeated last week in an away game to Barrowhouse in Division 3.
- Last Friday a junior tennis tournament was cancelled as a result.
- It is going to be a five-year project and I want to give back whatever I can to Swedish junior tennis.
- The village has a busy sports and social scene with football, cricket and tennis clubs, plus junior football teams and uniformed clubs for the youngsters.
- Matt and Chris are junior county tennis champions.
- At 11, she became the youngest Belgian junior champion.
- He then became the youngest ever junior world champion the following year.
- Canadians also showcased a strong cadre of younger skaters in the junior events.
- The club is supportive of local junior golfers by inviting young players and high school students to play the course free of charge.
- There is a star rising, and rising fast, in local junior tennis.
- He was once a nationally-ranked Canadian junior tennis player.
- Much of the that money will be spent on rugby education programs, junior clubs and elite development of younger players.
- Sporting activities have not been neglected, with events ranging from junior tennis to a South African title boxing match.
Synonyms
younger, youngest
1. 1.1British Of, for, or denoting schoolchildren between the ages of 7 and 11.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was a fun way of returning to school after the half-term holiday for the pupils at the federated school that has its junior section at East Kennett and its infants' classes at Lockeridge.
  The trust added that junior pupils tend to be driven to school, whereas pupils at secondary school are more likely to walk or take the bus.
  The school's new junior wing opened in January and the tree planting has now marked the end of its successful first year as a primary.
  More than 60 junior children from the school will be doing different activities every week for the next year.
  Almost 100 children from the junior section of the school on Edensor Road took part on Wednesday.
  The event gives the junior pupils from primary schools in and around Appleby a taste of grammar school life.
  The May fair raised more than £1, 500, which will help to pay for the construction of an adventure trail in the school's junior playground.
  Most of the competitors were aged 11 to 19 but pupils from six primary schools took part in a junior section.
  Education bosses have proposed to build the new 210-place primary school on the existing junior site by September next year, to remove 208 places at the two schools.
  These sessions are also open to junior infants in primary school where it enables parents to access employment or training.
  A statement from the school said Mr Munro had achieved what he had set out to do, having overseen its transition from an all-age boarding school to a junior day school with a new nursery.
  Oldfield House Unit meets the needs of junior pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
  Parents of pupils at St Peter's Primary School, which was close to the site of the incident, were advised to pick up their children from the junior section of the school which was worst affected.
  In the summer you can see almost every junior pupil on the village bowling green at an after school club.
  These schools normally admit pupils from their junior department to senior school without sitting a further examination.
  As this was during school hours, the junior members could not take part.
  The funds were raised at the Elder Avenue school after junior pupils took part in a sponsored stay awake for 12 hours.
2. 1.2North American Of or for students in the third year of a course lasting four years in college or high school.
  his junior year in college
  Example sentencesExamples
  My sixth and worst episode struck at the end of my junior year of college when I was overwrought about a recent breakup with a boyfriend and exhausted from school.
  Williamson, who left college after his junior year, is raw when it comes to running routes, and he had trouble catching the ball during some offseason practices.
  I asked myself this question three years ago when I attended my first convention during my junior year of college.
  I took a Diaries and Journals class in college my junior year during the winter term.
  It helps to have lived in Tokyo for a year, as I did my junior year of college, to gain maximum enjoyment from this book.
  Probably the best time of my life was my junior year in college, 1997, at Rice University.
  And so, before returning to college for my junior year, I ventured up the cliff to give it a try.
  Sophomore and junior years of college, I went out with a guy named Mark.
  Most successful applicants will have taken at least basic journalism courses and have completed at least their junior year of college by summer 2000.
  During the summer before my junior year of college, my sister announced her engagement to a man she had met in college.
  Both Mr.T and Johnny passed their junior year of College.
  She first visited it as a Smith College student during her junior year abroad in Geneva.
  Alex was their older brother, who was in his junior year in College, a whole four years older than Colleen.
  Zimmermann married his high school sweetheart, Ann Bagsby, during his junior year at college and joined her fundamentalist Church of Christ.
  When I was finishing my junior year at college, I began thinking about the path I should follow after I graduated.
  They were on the road because it's during the summer after a high school player's junior year that college coaches best identify scholarship prospects.
  My junior year in college, I remained in a residence hall, but my friends started moving into houses and apartments.
  Like him, she was lost somewhere between her sophomore and junior years of college, working full-time to pay for an apartment in the city.
  I first read this in my junior year in college, when I was studying in London for a semester.
  My awkward phase lasted for 9 long years and only began to whittle away during my junior year of college.
3. 1.3postpositive, in names Denoting the younger of two who have the same name in a family, especially a son as distinct from his father.
  John F. Kennedy Junior
  Synonyms
  the younger
2Low or lower in rank or status.
part of my function is to supervise those junior to me
Virginia's junior senator
Example sentencesExamples
- From early morning the ministers, junior ministers, TD, senators and MEPs arrived to hear how they were going to turn the Nice campaign around.
- The great John Dowling and so many other Kerry greats came through the junior ranks.
- If the top level politician remains too long in the saddle, the junior ranks may stagnate.
- Scathing reports on the surgical department then led to the surgical unit temporarily losing its training status for junior doctors.
- Much of the decline in the total number of economists was recorded in the junior ranks of associate lecturer and lecturer, although the number of male lecturers is unchanged over the four years.
- Her ministerial appointments amounted to only eight women, only one of whom rose higher than the ranks of junior minister.
- Somewhere in the junior ranks of the new government is that figure.
- Further problems arose when the health authorities made a highly critical assessment and withdrew the surgical unit's status as a training facility for junior doctors.
- She has worked hard to reach her rank, and junior officers do what she tells them, she says.
- Because you cannot necessarily always wait for a very junior rank to put themselves forward.
- But with Tony Blair and Michael Howard now representing their respective parties, he is suddenly very junior to both of his rivals.
- In her position as a clinical lecturer, Dr Khine would have been very junior to Professor van Velzen.
- In the Marines, he was a nobody with a silver bar, too junior to matter to staffers, too senior to fit in with the enlisted grunts his own age.
- Already, ministers and junior ministers must give up their council seats upon joining the Cabinet or junior minister ranks.
- Hospitals including the Royal, City and Ulster need to achieve a quota of junior doctors to maintain their teaching status in conjunction with Queen's University.
- The potential gains will include former ministers, junior ministers, TDs, and existing senators and other prominent candidates.
- I've been convinced that some of the young sergeants and junior officers never surrendered.
- Because that is an aspect we have understood makes staff and junior ranks very unhappy.
- The constant rotation of junior personnel through the ranks makes this unlikely, as does the oath of office sworn to by every soldier and officer.
- One of our most recent modules for junior hospital doctors is on the treatment of patients with status epilepticus.
Synonyms
low-ranking, lower-ranking, subordinate, sub-, lesser, lower, minor, secondary, inferior

nounˈjo͞onyərˈdʒunjər

1A person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else.
he's five years her junior
Example sentencesExamples
- Winifred, five years his junior, moved to Keighley from Newcastle in 1933 and worked at Wolsey's wool mill.
- In 1891 he met Lord Alfred Douglas, a young man sixteen years his junior.
- Serves him right for marrying a girl forty years his junior against her will.
- She was fifteen, nineteen years Kit's junior, when they married in 1843.
- Her husband Lee Hall - a Geordie five years her junior who leapt to international fame writing Billy Elliot, the story of a boy ballet dancer - leads an equally frantic life.
- Sixteen years his junior, Tamara de Lempicka made her name by her mid-twenties.
- Abelard was a famous teacher and Heloise, 22 years his junior.
- There she would encounter the future Queen, five years her junior, who entertained the battered troops at the piano.
- Claudia, 70, works out with a trainer, still wears killer heels and is dating a man 20 years her junior.
- With five marriages - the last with a guy 14 years her junior - under her garter belt, you might say Gibson doesn't believe in happily ever after.
- Why would Summer, almost twenty years her junior, and university educated, be attracted to Bridget?
- A reconstruction of Carlo's final moments, however, reveals he was killed by a terrified youth three years his junior.
- I wondered, though, how embarrassed Casey would feel about being taught by a junior; someone a year younger than him.
- In 1966 a gate charge of 20 cents was introduced, with juniors up for five cents and those under 14 admitted free.
- Fisher, too, says that, at 47, he has been told he has the health status of someone 20 years his junior.
- Most promising seemed the suggestion that he should marry Mary, queen of Scots, five years his junior, with the prospect of uniting the two kingdoms.
- But this guy was alright, although I think he's probably four or five years my junior.
- My sister Suzanna was two years older than me, and Philippa, the baby, was five years my junior, which meant I had to look after her a lot, when Mum, who was a chef, was on a job.
- Instead, children were simply held back in classes with pupils many years their junior, through what has been described as a ‘sink or swim policy’.
- In 1901 he married a second time, a science teacher called Evangeline Land, seventeen years his junior and the daughter of a prominent Detroit dentist.
1. 1.1North American A student in the third year of college or high school.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's a freshman in college and she's a junior in high-school for crying out loud.
  This year, the high school juniors and seniors donned backpacks and rubber boots to help in a turtle conservation project.
  There are special programs for high school juniors and seniors.
  My older son Ryan was away at college while the other was home and a junior in high school.
  On this day, Clemson offered scholarships to six high school juniors.
  I've been coming here since I was in middle school, and I'm a junior at wonderful Carmon High School now.
  By May of 1999, the foundation offered two scholarship programs and intensive SAT tutoring for high school juniors and seniors.
  When she was a junior in high school, she went to the local community college and took Italian and Russian for two years.
  Why would he fall for introverted high school juniors?
  All high school juniors and seniors are eligible to compete.
  I'm still wondering why he's a junior in highschool when he could be one in college!
  Choosing among programs can be quite bewildering for the rising high school junior or senior researching colleges and universities.
  This fall, she will be dually enrolled at Simon's Rock College as a high school junior and college freshman.
  Scott and I are better, I'm a junior in high school and he's a sophomore in college.
  Probably not, but they can successfully mix high school juniors and high school seniors in the same program.
  It was an anthology of insightful quotes, designed mainly for juniors and seniors in high school.
  Currently, it enrolls approximately 2,500 high school juniors and seniors each year.
  It targets high-school juniors whose grades don't reflect their true academic capabilities.
  One of the bloggers is a junior in high school, another is a recent college graduate.
  Wall Street 101 is open to high school juniors and seniors.
2. 1.2 (in sports) a young competitor, typically under sixteen or eighteen.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The undefeated juniors lead their group after home wins against the Czech Republic and Malta, and a draw with Denmark.
  And, as a junior who is two victories away from another Final Four appearance, he said it only makes him more determined to stay at Duke.
  The victors will parade at Lansdowne Road on the national holiday and the juniors at the same venue eleven days later.
  The left-hander is Baseball America's 18 th-ranked prospect among juniors.
  He was at the helm in an unforgettable 1999 when the juniors went all the way to All-Ireland glory, and who is to say he won't again wave that magic wand to ensure a repeat in 2004?
  As a result of some of the initiatives undertaken by the club, some young juniors are already competing at regional events.
  Older juniors and adult fencers compete in the Under-16, Under-19 or Senior divisions.
  Two years before he would guide the international juniors to victory over their American counterparts with 33 points and 14 rebounds.
  He added: ‘Clubs are continually trying to recruit juniors wanting to take up the sport and we can offer guidance to them.’
  Now 18, though still young enough to compete as a junior, Sorrell has broken through.
  Without these juniors, league football could be finished.
  A team of five seniors and three juniors will be representing the district this weekend at the NSW Country Championships in Bathurst.
  Milltown juniors enjoyed a 1-9 to 1-5 victory away to Castledermot in the league recently.
  His national victory came against fellow juniors - and adults - and he also came second in the national windsurfing Under-17s slalom series.
  So certainly with those amateurs and juniors, the administrators need to have a pretty good look at how they timetable different sports.
  The juniors suffered a disastrous 7-1 defeat, while the men ceded with the minimum 1-0.
  I have seen some of our juniors compete because we've gone on a few trips and things.
  Adults train mainly for traditional karate and self defence while juniors train mainly for sport and competition.
  It's the first of a number of new initiatives to improve the competition available to Britain's top club athletes, juniors and aspiring internationals.
  There is coaching for juniors each Wednesday from 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
3. 1.3North American informal Used as a nickname or form of address for one's son.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The colorful PC is likely to fit junior's bedroom or playroom décor.
  Want to send mom a DVD of junior's first Christmas?
  And the big toy chains are hopeful that while mom and dad may cut back on other parts of the family budget, they'll continue to splurge on toys for junior.
  Just because Gramps was a great, public spirited man does not mean that junior, who has grown up with a taste for finery, will be the same.
2A person with low rank or status compared with others.
Example sentencesExamples
- His junior was unable to attend the court proceedings.
- Ms Gold started in her father's business as a junior at the age of 21 and rose through the ranks to become chief executive trying to take the business upmarket along the way.
- I taught it to my junior who did the Blackburn Royal Commission.
- I applied for his job, certain that I would get it as I had been his junior for five years, and I was confident I could do the job better than anybody else within the company.
- Brendan started his career in retail at the L&N, Dungarvan in 1983, where he worked as a shop floor assistant and as a junior in the Goods Inward Department.
- Neither Mr Syed, the locum consultant urologist nor his junior were present.
- The drugs are collected from the pharmacy by the specialist chemotherapy nurses and handed to the consultant or to juniors in the consultant's presence.
- It should be compulsory reading for all undergraduates and hospital juniors.
- Doctors warn there are not enough consultants to take over from the juniors, which could in turn affect consultants' day work and therefore increase waiting times.
- A lot of experienced police officers are being bypassed for promotion while juniors are being elevated.
- When Josie began her training juniors were expected to do the cleaning, including scrubbing the floors, and they were gradually taught hairdressing skills.
Synonyms
subordinate, inferior, deputy, junior, assistant, adjutant, aide, minion, lackey, flunkey, menial, retainer, vassal, subject, serf, hireling, servant, henchman, myrmidon, right-hand man, right-hand woman, girl friday, man friday, factotum, stooge
3A size of clothing for teenagers or slender women.

Origin

Middle English (as an adjective following a family name): from Latin, comparative of juvenis ‘young’.

单词	junior
释义	Definition of junior in English: junior adjective ˈdʒuːnɪəˈdʒunjər 1For or denoting young or younger people. junior tennis Example sentencesExamples It is going to be a five-year project and I want to give back whatever I can to Swedish junior tennis. Much of the that money will be spent on rugby education programs, junior clubs and elite development of younger players. The village has a busy sports and social scene with football, cricket and tennis clubs, plus junior football teams and uniformed clubs for the youngsters. He was once a nationally-ranked Canadian junior tennis player. He then became the youngest ever junior world champion the following year. The club is continuing to expand the junior section and welcomes young people who would like to take up the game. Wildlife Watch is the UK's leading action club for young environmentalists and junior members have the opportunity to collect badges. The club is supportive of local junior golfers by inviting young players and high school students to play the course free of charge. Students who had set up and run a mini company under the junior achievement young enterprise programme were eligible to enter the competition. Two young players were brought on for their first experience of junior football. Canadians also showcased a strong cadre of younger skaters in the junior events. The family spent their summers at Ardmore in Waterford, where O'Callaghan is known to have played in junior tennis tournaments. There is a star rising, and rising fast, in local junior tennis. Matt and Chris are junior county tennis champions. She pointed out that it would be encouraging to see young people getting involved and that perhaps a junior association could be formed. The junior team, with a very young side, were defeated last week in an away game to Barrowhouse in Division 3. Sporting activities have not been neglected, with events ranging from junior tennis to a South African title boxing match. At 11, she became the youngest Belgian junior champion. Last Friday a junior tennis tournament was cancelled as a result. For the older boys and girls there were quad bikes and for the young horse enthusiasts there was the keenly contested junior hunt chase, and pony club games. Synonyms younger, youngest 1.1British For or denoting schoolchildren between the ages of about 7 and 11. junior pupils Example sentencesExamples These schools normally admit pupils from their junior department to senior school without sitting a further examination. Most of the competitors were aged 11 to 19 but pupils from six primary schools took part in a junior section. The funds were raised at the Elder Avenue school after junior pupils took part in a sponsored stay awake for 12 hours. These sessions are also open to junior infants in primary school where it enables parents to access employment or training. Oldfield House Unit meets the needs of junior pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties. Education bosses have proposed to build the new 210-place primary school on the existing junior site by September next year, to remove 208 places at the two schools. It was a fun way of returning to school after the half-term holiday for the pupils at the federated school that has its junior section at East Kennett and its infants' classes at Lockeridge. The trust added that junior pupils tend to be driven to school, whereas pupils at secondary school are more likely to walk or take the bus. More than 60 junior children from the school will be doing different activities every week for the next year. Parents of pupils at St Peter's Primary School, which was close to the site of the incident, were advised to pick up their children from the junior section of the school which was worst affected. In the summer you can see almost every junior pupil on the village bowling green at an after school club. As this was during school hours, the junior members could not take part. The May fair raised more than £1, 500, which will help to pay for the construction of an adventure trail in the school's junior playground. The school's new junior wing opened in January and the tree planting has now marked the end of its successful first year as a primary. A statement from the school said Mr Munro had achieved what he had set out to do, having overseen its transition from an all-age boarding school to a junior day school with a new nursery. The event gives the junior pupils from primary schools in and around Appleby a taste of grammar school life. Almost 100 children from the junior section of the school on Edensor Road took part on Wednesday. 1.2North American Of or for students in the third year of a course lasting four years at college or high school. his junior year in college Example sentencesExamples Like him, she was lost somewhere between her sophomore and junior years of college, working full-time to pay for an apartment in the city. Probably the best time of my life was my junior year in college, 1997, at Rice University. Both Mr.T and Johnny passed their junior year of College. It helps to have lived in Tokyo for a year, as I did my junior year of college, to gain maximum enjoyment from this book. I asked myself this question three years ago when I attended my first convention during my junior year of college. She first visited it as a Smith College student during her junior year abroad in Geneva. Zimmermann married his high school sweetheart, Ann Bagsby, during his junior year at college and joined her fundamentalist Church of Christ. During the summer before my junior year of college, my sister announced her engagement to a man she had met in college. Most successful applicants will have taken at least basic journalism courses and have completed at least their junior year of college by summer 2000. When I was finishing my junior year at college, I began thinking about the path I should follow after I graduated. Sophomore and junior years of college, I went out with a guy named Mark. My junior year in college, I remained in a residence hall, but my friends started moving into houses and apartments. My sixth and worst episode struck at the end of my junior year of college when I was overwrought about a recent breakup with a boyfriend and exhausted from school. Alex was their older brother, who was in his junior year in College, a whole four years older than Colleen. And so, before returning to college for my junior year, I ventured up the cliff to give it a try. They were on the road because it's during the summer after a high school player's junior year that college coaches best identify scholarship prospects. My awkward phase lasted for 9 long years and only began to whittle away during my junior year of college. Williamson, who left college after his junior year, is raw when it comes to running routes, and he had trouble catching the ball during some offseason practices. I first read this in my junior year in college, when I was studying in London for a semester. I took a Diaries and Journals class in college my junior year during the winter term. 1.3postpositive, in names Denoting the younger of two who have the same name in a family, especially a son as distinct from his father. John F. Kennedy Junior Synonyms the Younger British minor North American II 2Low or lower in rank or status. a junior minister part of my function is to supervise those junior to me Example sentencesExamples One of our most recent modules for junior hospital doctors is on the treatment of patients with status epilepticus. Further problems arose when the health authorities made a highly critical assessment and withdrew the surgical unit's status as a training facility for junior doctors. She has worked hard to reach her rank, and junior officers do what she tells them, she says. Scathing reports on the surgical department then led to the surgical unit temporarily losing its training status for junior doctors. Somewhere in the junior ranks of the new government is that figure. Already, ministers and junior ministers must give up their council seats upon joining the Cabinet or junior minister ranks. The potential gains will include former ministers, junior ministers, TDs, and existing senators and other prominent candidates. In the Marines, he was a nobody with a silver bar, too junior to matter to staffers, too senior to fit in with the enlisted grunts his own age. From early morning the ministers, junior ministers, TD, senators and MEPs arrived to hear how they were going to turn the Nice campaign around. Hospitals including the Royal, City and Ulster need to achieve a quota of junior doctors to maintain their teaching status in conjunction with Queen's University. I've been convinced that some of the young sergeants and junior officers never surrendered. Her ministerial appointments amounted to only eight women, only one of whom rose higher than the ranks of junior minister. The great John Dowling and so many other Kerry greats came through the junior ranks. In her position as a clinical lecturer, Dr Khine would have been very junior to Professor van Velzen. If the top level politician remains too long in the saddle, the junior ranks may stagnate. The constant rotation of junior personnel through the ranks makes this unlikely, as does the oath of office sworn to by every soldier and officer. Much of the decline in the total number of economists was recorded in the junior ranks of associate lecturer and lecturer, although the number of male lecturers is unchanged over the four years. Because you cannot necessarily always wait for a very junior rank to put themselves forward. But with Tony Blair and Michael Howard now representing their respective parties, he is suddenly very junior to both of his rivals. Because that is an aspect we have understood makes staff and junior ranks very unhappy. Synonyms low-ranking, lower-ranking, subordinate, sub-, lesser, lower, minor, secondary, inferior beneath, under noun ˈdʒuːnɪəˈdʒunjər 1A person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else. he's five years her junior Example sentencesExamples Why would Summer, almost twenty years her junior, and university educated, be attracted to Bridget? But this guy was alright, although I think he's probably four or five years my junior. Fisher, too, says that, at 47, he has been told he has the health status of someone 20 years his junior. Claudia, 70, works out with a trainer, still wears killer heels and is dating a man 20 years her junior. She was fifteen, nineteen years Kit's junior, when they married in 1843. Sixteen years his junior, Tamara de Lempicka made her name by her mid-twenties. Abelard was a famous teacher and Heloise, 22 years his junior. I wondered, though, how embarrassed Casey would feel about being taught by a junior; someone a year younger than him. Serves him right for marrying a girl forty years his junior against her will. Instead, children were simply held back in classes with pupils many years their junior, through what has been described as a ‘sink or swim policy’. Most promising seemed the suggestion that he should marry Mary, queen of Scots, five years his junior, with the prospect of uniting the two kingdoms. Her husband Lee Hall - a Geordie five years her junior who leapt to international fame writing Billy Elliot, the story of a boy ballet dancer - leads an equally frantic life. A reconstruction of Carlo's final moments, however, reveals he was killed by a terrified youth three years his junior. My sister Suzanna was two years older than me, and Philippa, the baby, was five years my junior, which meant I had to look after her a lot, when Mum, who was a chef, was on a job. In 1901 he married a second time, a science teacher called Evangeline Land, seventeen years his junior and the daughter of a prominent Detroit dentist. There she would encounter the future Queen, five years her junior, who entertained the battered troops at the piano. With five marriages - the last with a guy 14 years her junior - under her garter belt, you might say Gibson doesn't believe in happily ever after. In 1891 he met Lord Alfred Douglas, a young man sixteen years his junior. Winifred, five years his junior, moved to Keighley from Newcastle in 1933 and worked at Wolsey's wool mill. In 1966 a gate charge of 20 cents was introduced, with juniors up for five cents and those under 14 admitted free. 1.1British A child attending a junior school. first-year juniors the curriculum of top juniors Example sentencesExamples He comes to school with his Mammy as she is teaching the juniors. Play facilities specially constructed to cater for juniors and toddlers will be built next to Chiltern Primary School. But last year there were only 149 infants and 266 juniors. The inspectors recommended a partition to split the juniors from the infants or better still a separate classroom to be created. Aimed at infants and juniors up to year 5, the site provides fortnightly challenges. There are prizes for two age groups - infants and juniors. It brings together juniors and infants on one site, rather than a quarter of a mile apart on opposite sides of busy Bag Lane. Noeleen's juniors number eleven in total and are divided between junior, senior infants and second class. Now it's only Sunday mornings, weddings, funerals, a carol service the week before Christmas and an occasional harvest festival for the local C of E infants and juniors. Only the juniors have a crossing lady, the infant school children have nothing, so please slow down. But the money saved by not replacing the retiring head at Carlton will allow each school to afford separate teachers for infants and juniors. In the prescribed order infants, toddlers and juniors mounted Matron, were breathed upon, exchanged whispers, and given their Christmas present. Teachers, pupils and parents at Brightside Primary School are jubilant about the successes and improvements since the infants and juniors merged two years ago. Class sizes for juniors would also reduce, with an average of 25 pupils per teacher, down from the existing norm of 27. The buildings will be modernised and refurbished for the 420 infants and juniors with large open teaching spaces with IT facilities. 1.2North American A student in the third year at college or high school. with modifier high-school juniors and seniors Example sentencesExamples Choosing among programs can be quite bewildering for the rising high school junior or senior researching colleges and universities. This year, the high school juniors and seniors donned backpacks and rubber boots to help in a turtle conservation project. It was an anthology of insightful quotes, designed mainly for juniors and seniors in high school. My older son Ryan was away at college while the other was home and a junior in high school. Currently, it enrolls approximately 2,500 high school juniors and seniors each year. All high school juniors and seniors are eligible to compete. On this day, Clemson offered scholarships to six high school juniors. Wall Street 101 is open to high school juniors and seniors. When she was a junior in high school, she went to the local community college and took Italian and Russian for two years. I'm still wondering why he's a junior in highschool when he could be one in college! He's a freshman in college and she's a junior in high-school for crying out loud. By May of 1999, the foundation offered two scholarship programs and intensive SAT tutoring for high school juniors and seniors. It targets high-school juniors whose grades don't reflect their true academic capabilities. This fall, she will be dually enrolled at Simon's Rock College as a high school junior and college freshman. Why would he fall for introverted high school juniors? Scott and I are better, I'm a junior in high school and he's a sophomore in college. I've been coming here since I was in middle school, and I'm a junior at wonderful Carmon High School now. One of the bloggers is a junior in high school, another is a recent college graduate. There are special programs for high school juniors and seniors. Probably not, but they can successfully mix high school juniors and high school seniors in the same program. 1.3 (in sport) a young competitor, typically under sixteen or eighteen. indoor tennis for juniors Example sentencesExamples The undefeated juniors lead their group after home wins against the Czech Republic and Malta, and a draw with Denmark. As a result of some of the initiatives undertaken by the club, some young juniors are already competing at regional events. He added: ‘Clubs are continually trying to recruit juniors wanting to take up the sport and we can offer guidance to them.’ So certainly with those amateurs and juniors, the administrators need to have a pretty good look at how they timetable different sports. It's the first of a number of new initiatives to improve the competition available to Britain's top club athletes, juniors and aspiring internationals. Milltown juniors enjoyed a 1-9 to 1-5 victory away to Castledermot in the league recently. He was at the helm in an unforgettable 1999 when the juniors went all the way to All-Ireland glory, and who is to say he won't again wave that magic wand to ensure a repeat in 2004? Without these juniors, league football could be finished. I have seen some of our juniors compete because we've gone on a few trips and things. And, as a junior who is two victories away from another Final Four appearance, he said it only makes him more determined to stay at Duke. There is coaching for juniors each Wednesday from 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. The left-hander is Baseball America's 18 th-ranked prospect among juniors. Now 18, though still young enough to compete as a junior, Sorrell has broken through. The victors will parade at Lansdowne Road on the national holiday and the juniors at the same venue eleven days later. Adults train mainly for traditional karate and self defence while juniors train mainly for sport and competition. Older juniors and adult fencers compete in the Under-16, Under-19 or Senior divisions. Two years before he would guide the international juniors to victory over their American counterparts with 33 points and 14 rebounds. His national victory came against fellow juniors - and adults - and he also came second in the national windsurfing Under-17s slalom series. A team of five seniors and three juniors will be representing the district this weekend at the NSW Country Championships in Bathurst. The juniors suffered a disastrous 7-1 defeat, while the men ceded with the minimum 1-0. 1.4North American informal Used as a nickname or form of address for one's son. he said: ‘there's Junior,’ referring to his son Example sentencesExamples Just because Gramps was a great, public spirited man does not mean that junior, who has grown up with a taste for finery, will be the same. The colorful PC is likely to fit junior's bedroom or playroom décor. And the big toy chains are hopeful that while mom and dad may cut back on other parts of the family budget, they'll continue to splurge on toys for junior. Want to send mom a DVD of junior's first Christmas? 2A person with low rank or status compared with others. an office junior Example sentencesExamples The drugs are collected from the pharmacy by the specialist chemotherapy nurses and handed to the consultant or to juniors in the consultant's presence. I taught it to my junior who did the Blackburn Royal Commission. Doctors warn there are not enough consultants to take over from the juniors, which could in turn affect consultants' day work and therefore increase waiting times. Neither Mr Syed, the locum consultant urologist nor his junior were present. Ms Gold started in her father's business as a junior at the age of 21 and rose through the ranks to become chief executive trying to take the business upmarket along the way. I applied for his job, certain that I would get it as I had been his junior for five years, and I was confident I could do the job better than anybody else within the company. When Josie began her training juniors were expected to do the cleaning, including scrubbing the floors, and they were gradually taught hairdressing skills. A lot of experienced police officers are being bypassed for promotion while juniors are being elevated. His junior was unable to attend the court proceedings. Brendan started his career in retail at the L&N, Dungarvan in 1983, where he worked as a shop floor assistant and as a junior in the Goods Inward Department. It should be compulsory reading for all undergraduates and hospital juniors. Synonyms subordinate, inferior, deputy, junior, assistant, adjutant, aide, minion, lackey, flunkey, menial, retainer, vassal, subject, serf, hireling, servant, henchman, myrmidon, right-hand man, right-hand woman, girl friday, man friday, factotum, stooge Derivatives juniority noun dʒuːnɪˈɒrɪti The Court noted that the clause applied irrespective of the experience and juniority of the employee concerned. Example sentencesExamples However, during the colonial period economic changes gave youth new sources of power that they could use to bypass older systems of bridewealth that old men had used to keep them in a position of juniority. Origin Middle English (as an adjective following a family name): from Latin, comparative of juvenis 'young'. This word was first used as an adjective following a family name. It is a use of a Latin word, the comparative (‘younger’) of juvenis ‘young’. Rhymes petunia Definition of junior in US English: junior adjectiveˈjo͞onyərˈdʒunjər 1Of, for, or denoting young or younger people. junior tennis Example sentencesExamples Two young players were brought on for their first experience of junior football. Wildlife Watch is the UK's leading action club for young environmentalists and junior members have the opportunity to collect badges. The club is continuing to expand the junior section and welcomes young people who would like to take up the game. She pointed out that it would be encouraging to see young people getting involved and that perhaps a junior association could be formed. Students who had set up and run a mini company under the junior achievement young enterprise programme were eligible to enter the competition. For the older boys and girls there were quad bikes and for the young horse enthusiasts there was the keenly contested junior hunt chase, and pony club games. The family spent their summers at Ardmore in Waterford, where O'Callaghan is known to have played in junior tennis tournaments. The junior team, with a very young side, were defeated last week in an away game to Barrowhouse in Division 3. Last Friday a junior tennis tournament was cancelled as a result. It is going to be a five-year project and I want to give back whatever I can to Swedish junior tennis. The village has a busy sports and social scene with football, cricket and tennis clubs, plus junior football teams and uniformed clubs for the youngsters. Matt and Chris are junior county tennis champions. At 11, she became the youngest Belgian junior champion. He then became the youngest ever junior world champion the following year. Canadians also showcased a strong cadre of younger skaters in the junior events. The club is supportive of local junior golfers by inviting young players and high school students to play the course free of charge. There is a star rising, and rising fast, in local junior tennis. He was once a nationally-ranked Canadian junior tennis player. Much of the that money will be spent on rugby education programs, junior clubs and elite development of younger players. Sporting activities have not been neglected, with events ranging from junior tennis to a South African title boxing match. Synonyms younger, youngest 1.1British Of, for, or denoting schoolchildren between the ages of 7 and 11. Example sentencesExamples It was a fun way of returning to school after the half-term holiday for the pupils at the federated school that has its junior section at East Kennett and its infants' classes at Lockeridge. The trust added that junior pupils tend to be driven to school, whereas pupils at secondary school are more likely to walk or take the bus. The school's new junior wing opened in January and the tree planting has now marked the end of its successful first year as a primary. More than 60 junior children from the school will be doing different activities every week for the next year. Almost 100 children from the junior section of the school on Edensor Road took part on Wednesday. The event gives the junior pupils from primary schools in and around Appleby a taste of grammar school life. The May fair raised more than £1, 500, which will help to pay for the construction of an adventure trail in the school's junior playground. Most of the competitors were aged 11 to 19 but pupils from six primary schools took part in a junior section. Education bosses have proposed to build the new 210-place primary school on the existing junior site by September next year, to remove 208 places at the two schools. These sessions are also open to junior infants in primary school where it enables parents to access employment or training. A statement from the school said Mr Munro had achieved what he had set out to do, having overseen its transition from an all-age boarding school to a junior day school with a new nursery. Oldfield House Unit meets the needs of junior pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties. Parents of pupils at St Peter's Primary School, which was close to the site of the incident, were advised to pick up their children from the junior section of the school which was worst affected. In the summer you can see almost every junior pupil on the village bowling green at an after school club. These schools normally admit pupils from their junior department to senior school without sitting a further examination. As this was during school hours, the junior members could not take part. The funds were raised at the Elder Avenue school after junior pupils took part in a sponsored stay awake for 12 hours. 1.2North American Of or for students in the third year of a course lasting four years in college or high school. his junior year in college Example sentencesExamples My sixth and worst episode struck at the end of my junior year of college when I was overwrought about a recent breakup with a boyfriend and exhausted from school. Williamson, who left college after his junior year, is raw when it comes to running routes, and he had trouble catching the ball during some offseason practices. I asked myself this question three years ago when I attended my first convention during my junior year of college. I took a Diaries and Journals class in college my junior year during the winter term. It helps to have lived in Tokyo for a year, as I did my junior year of college, to gain maximum enjoyment from this book. Probably the best time of my life was my junior year in college, 1997, at Rice University. And so, before returning to college for my junior year, I ventured up the cliff to give it a try. Sophomore and junior years of college, I went out with a guy named Mark. Most successful applicants will have taken at least basic journalism courses and have completed at least their junior year of college by summer 2000. During the summer before my junior year of college, my sister announced her engagement to a man she had met in college. Both Mr.T and Johnny passed their junior year of College. She first visited it as a Smith College student during her junior year abroad in Geneva. Alex was their older brother, who was in his junior year in College, a whole four years older than Colleen. Zimmermann married his high school sweetheart, Ann Bagsby, during his junior year at college and joined her fundamentalist Church of Christ. When I was finishing my junior year at college, I began thinking about the path I should follow after I graduated. They were on the road because it's during the summer after a high school player's junior year that college coaches best identify scholarship prospects. My junior year in college, I remained in a residence hall, but my friends started moving into houses and apartments. Like him, she was lost somewhere between her sophomore and junior years of college, working full-time to pay for an apartment in the city. I first read this in my junior year in college, when I was studying in London for a semester. My awkward phase lasted for 9 long years and only began to whittle away during my junior year of college. 1.3postpositive, in names Denoting the younger of two who have the same name in a family, especially a son as distinct from his father. John F. Kennedy Junior Synonyms the younger 2Low or lower in rank or status. part of my function is to supervise those junior to me Virginia's junior senator Example sentencesExamples From early morning the ministers, junior ministers, TD, senators and MEPs arrived to hear how they were going to turn the Nice campaign around. The great John Dowling and so many other Kerry greats came through the junior ranks. If the top level politician remains too long in the saddle, the junior ranks may stagnate. Scathing reports on the surgical department then led to the surgical unit temporarily losing its training status for junior doctors. Much of the decline in the total number of economists was recorded in the junior ranks of associate lecturer and lecturer, although the number of male lecturers is unchanged over the four years. Her ministerial appointments amounted to only eight women, only one of whom rose higher than the ranks of junior minister. Somewhere in the junior ranks of the new government is that figure. Further problems arose when the health authorities made a highly critical assessment and withdrew the surgical unit's status as a training facility for junior doctors. She has worked hard to reach her rank, and junior officers do what she tells them, she says. Because you cannot necessarily always wait for a very junior rank to put themselves forward. But with Tony Blair and Michael Howard now representing their respective parties, he is suddenly very junior to both of his rivals. In her position as a clinical lecturer, Dr Khine would have been very junior to Professor van Velzen. In the Marines, he was a nobody with a silver bar, too junior to matter to staffers, too senior to fit in with the enlisted grunts his own age. Already, ministers and junior ministers must give up their council seats upon joining the Cabinet or junior minister ranks. Hospitals including the Royal, City and Ulster need to achieve a quota of junior doctors to maintain their teaching status in conjunction with Queen's University. The potential gains will include former ministers, junior ministers, TDs, and existing senators and other prominent candidates. I've been convinced that some of the young sergeants and junior officers never surrendered. Because that is an aspect we have understood makes staff and junior ranks very unhappy. The constant rotation of junior personnel through the ranks makes this unlikely, as does the oath of office sworn to by every soldier and officer. One of our most recent modules for junior hospital doctors is on the treatment of patients with status epilepticus. Synonyms low-ranking, lower-ranking, subordinate, sub-, lesser, lower, minor, secondary, inferior nounˈjo͞onyərˈdʒunjər 1A person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else. he's five years her junior Example sentencesExamples Winifred, five years his junior, moved to Keighley from Newcastle in 1933 and worked at Wolsey's wool mill. In 1891 he met Lord Alfred Douglas, a young man sixteen years his junior. Serves him right for marrying a girl forty years his junior against her will. She was fifteen, nineteen years Kit's junior, when they married in 1843. Her husband Lee Hall - a Geordie five years her junior who leapt to international fame writing Billy Elliot, the story of a boy ballet dancer - leads an equally frantic life. Sixteen years his junior, Tamara de Lempicka made her name by her mid-twenties. Abelard was a famous teacher and Heloise, 22 years his junior. There she would encounter the future Queen, five years her junior, who entertained the battered troops at the piano. Claudia, 70, works out with a trainer, still wears killer heels and is dating a man 20 years her junior. With five marriages - the last with a guy 14 years her junior - under her garter belt, you might say Gibson doesn't believe in happily ever after. Why would Summer, almost twenty years her junior, and university educated, be attracted to Bridget? A reconstruction of Carlo's final moments, however, reveals he was killed by a terrified youth three years his junior. I wondered, though, how embarrassed Casey would feel about being taught by a junior; someone a year younger than him. In 1966 a gate charge of 20 cents was introduced, with juniors up for five cents and those under 14 admitted free. Fisher, too, says that, at 47, he has been told he has the health status of someone 20 years his junior. Most promising seemed the suggestion that he should marry Mary, queen of Scots, five years his junior, with the prospect of uniting the two kingdoms. But this guy was alright, although I think he's probably four or five years my junior. My sister Suzanna was two years older than me, and Philippa, the baby, was five years my junior, which meant I had to look after her a lot, when Mum, who was a chef, was on a job. Instead, children were simply held back in classes with pupils many years their junior, through what has been described as a ‘sink or swim policy’. In 1901 he married a second time, a science teacher called Evangeline Land, seventeen years his junior and the daughter of a prominent Detroit dentist. 1.1North American A student in the third year of college or high school. Example sentencesExamples He's a freshman in college and she's a junior in high-school for crying out loud. This year, the high school juniors and seniors donned backpacks and rubber boots to help in a turtle conservation project. There are special programs for high school juniors and seniors. My older son Ryan was away at college while the other was home and a junior in high school. On this day, Clemson offered scholarships to six high school juniors. I've been coming here since I was in middle school, and I'm a junior at wonderful Carmon High School now. By May of 1999, the foundation offered two scholarship programs and intensive SAT tutoring for high school juniors and seniors. When she was a junior in high school, she went to the local community college and took Italian and Russian for two years. Why would he fall for introverted high school juniors? All high school juniors and seniors are eligible to compete. I'm still wondering why he's a junior in highschool when he could be one in college! Choosing among programs can be quite bewildering for the rising high school junior or senior researching colleges and universities. This fall, she will be dually enrolled at Simon's Rock College as a high school junior and college freshman. Scott and I are better, I'm a junior in high school and he's a sophomore in college. Probably not, but they can successfully mix high school juniors and high school seniors in the same program. It was an anthology of insightful quotes, designed mainly for juniors and seniors in high school. Currently, it enrolls approximately 2,500 high school juniors and seniors each year. It targets high-school juniors whose grades don't reflect their true academic capabilities. One of the bloggers is a junior in high school, another is a recent college graduate. Wall Street 101 is open to high school juniors and seniors. 1.2 (in sports) a young competitor, typically under sixteen or eighteen. Example sentencesExamples The undefeated juniors lead their group after home wins against the Czech Republic and Malta, and a draw with Denmark. And, as a junior who is two victories away from another Final Four appearance, he said it only makes him more determined to stay at Duke. The victors will parade at Lansdowne Road on the national holiday and the juniors at the same venue eleven days later. The left-hander is Baseball America's 18 th-ranked prospect among juniors. He was at the helm in an unforgettable 1999 when the juniors went all the way to All-Ireland glory, and who is to say he won't again wave that magic wand to ensure a repeat in 2004? As a result of some of the initiatives undertaken by the club, some young juniors are already competing at regional events. Older juniors and adult fencers compete in the Under-16, Under-19 or Senior divisions. Two years before he would guide the international juniors to victory over their American counterparts with 33 points and 14 rebounds. He added: ‘Clubs are continually trying to recruit juniors wanting to take up the sport and we can offer guidance to them.’ Now 18, though still young enough to compete as a junior, Sorrell has broken through. Without these juniors, league football could be finished. A team of five seniors and three juniors will be representing the district this weekend at the NSW Country Championships in Bathurst. Milltown juniors enjoyed a 1-9 to 1-5 victory away to Castledermot in the league recently. His national victory came against fellow juniors - and adults - and he also came second in the national windsurfing Under-17s slalom series. So certainly with those amateurs and juniors, the administrators need to have a pretty good look at how they timetable different sports. The juniors suffered a disastrous 7-1 defeat, while the men ceded with the minimum 1-0. I have seen some of our juniors compete because we've gone on a few trips and things. Adults train mainly for traditional karate and self defence while juniors train mainly for sport and competition. It's the first of a number of new initiatives to improve the competition available to Britain's top club athletes, juniors and aspiring internationals. There is coaching for juniors each Wednesday from 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. 1.3North American informal Used as a nickname or form of address for one's son. Example sentencesExamples The colorful PC is likely to fit junior's bedroom or playroom décor. Want to send mom a DVD of junior's first Christmas? And the big toy chains are hopeful that while mom and dad may cut back on other parts of the family budget, they'll continue to splurge on toys for junior. Just because Gramps was a great, public spirited man does not mean that junior, who has grown up with a taste for finery, will be the same. 2A person with low rank or status compared with others. Example sentencesExamples His junior was unable to attend the court proceedings. Ms Gold started in her father's business as a junior at the age of 21 and rose through the ranks to become chief executive trying to take the business upmarket along the way. I taught it to my junior who did the Blackburn Royal Commission. I applied for his job, certain that I would get it as I had been his junior for five years, and I was confident I could do the job better than anybody else within the company. Brendan started his career in retail at the L&N, Dungarvan in 1983, where he worked as a shop floor assistant and as a junior in the Goods Inward Department. Neither Mr Syed, the locum consultant urologist nor his junior were present. The drugs are collected from the pharmacy by the specialist chemotherapy nurses and handed to the consultant or to juniors in the consultant's presence. It should be compulsory reading for all undergraduates and hospital juniors. Doctors warn there are not enough consultants to take over from the juniors, which could in turn affect consultants' day work and therefore increase waiting times. A lot of experienced police officers are being bypassed for promotion while juniors are being elevated. When Josie began her training juniors were expected to do the cleaning, including scrubbing the floors, and they were gradually taught hairdressing skills. Synonyms subordinate, inferior, deputy, junior, assistant, adjutant, aide, minion, lackey, flunkey, menial, retainer, vassal, subject, serf, hireling, servant, henchman, myrmidon, right-hand man, right-hand woman, girl friday, man friday, factotum, stooge 3A size of clothing for teenagers or slender women. Origin Middle English (as an adjective following a family name): from Latin, comparative of juvenis ‘young’.
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