junior

Meanings

Adjective

• Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
• Younger.
• Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
• Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.

Noun

• A younger person.
• A third-year student at a high school or university.
• A junior barrister.

Related

Opposite words

• senior

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior which is the comparative of iuvenis; see juvenile.