junior
/ˈd͡ʒuniɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.49 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
adj
Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
American usage
adj
Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.
Canadian usage; American usage
Example Sentences
- "He uses the leverage of seniority with the more junior employees."
- "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."
- "Humorous books for junior readers are often ignored by the critical community, due, in part, to what Milner Davis describes as a “conventional bias against comic genres” (1996: 101), and I consider this a serious oversight within the field of children's literature."
- "There she is: Lady Margaret Hall, eight years junior to me, exhibitioner where I was top scholar, and reading French. (Not veterinary science.)"
- "A handbook for junior golfers covering a wide range of golfing instruction and information with over 250 photographs of juniors learning, playing, practicing and enjoying the game of golf."
- "Instead of going to the unit I walked in the opposite direction towards the medicine lecture room with various thoughts going through my mind — most of them were positive as this was a great opportunity to practise what I had learnt so far and should have a good impact on students who were 3–4 years junior to me and not known to me."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: junior
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒuniɚ/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒuːniə/
Usage
- American usage
- British usage
- Canadian usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Transitive verb
Inflected Forms
more junior (comparative)
most junior (superlative)
juniour (alternative)
juniors (plural)
juniors (present, singular)
junioring (participle, present)
juniored (participle, past)
juniored (past)