- 1 [usually before noun] having a low rank in an organization or a profession junior employees junior to somebody She is junior to me. Oxford Collocations Dictionary verbsbe adverbvery, fairly, relatively, … prepositionto See full entry See related entries: Job titles in sport
- 2 [only before noun] connected with young people below a particular age, rather than with adults, especially in sports the world junior tennis championships son
- 3Junior (abbreviation Jnr, Jr) (especially in US) used after the name of a man who has the same name as his father, to avoid confusion compare the younger school/college
- 4[only before noun] (British English) (of a school or part of a school) for children under the age of 11 or 13 a junior school
- 5[only before noun] (North American English) connected with the year before the last year in a high school or college I spent my junior year in France. compare senior Word OriginMiddle English (as an adjective following a family name): from Latin, comparative of juvenis ‘young’.Extra examples She’s quite junior in the organization. a very junior officer My daughter goes into the junior school next year. The world junior tennis championships will be held in Paris next month. the junior department
of low rank
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