Thesaurus: junior

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1. a. Less advanced in age than another; younger.
2. a. Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.
3. a. class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/composed">Composed of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/juniors">juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2.
4. n. Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
5. n. A younger person.
6. n. Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.
7. adj. used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father
8. n. a son who has the same first name as his father
9. adj. younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
10. adj. used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
11. adj. including or intended for youthful persons
12. n. term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male