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Junior

adjective

1.

Younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service. Antonym: senior.

2.

Used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college. Synonyms: next-to-last, third-year. "A third-year student"

3.

Including or intended for youthful persons. "Junior fashions"

noun

1.

Term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male.

2.

A third-year undergraduate.

3.

The younger of two persons.

4.

A son who has the same first name as his father. Synonyms: Jnr, Jr.

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"Junior" Quotes from Famous Books

... sudden friendship for Mary Elsmere, her junior by some twelve years, the Rector, with an infinite pity, read the confession of a need that had become at last intolerable. For these seventeen years he had never known her make an intimate friend, and to see ...

— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... on the destiny of man. Returning then to a couch which I believed to have been that of the solitary philosopher I observed a depression where another form had lain, and in it a jade hairpin such as is worn by my junior beauties. Petrified with amazement at the display of such reserve, such continence, such august self-restraint, I perceived that, lost in my thoughts, I had had an unimagined companion and that this gentle reminder was from her gentle hand. But whom? I knew not. I ...

— The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories • L. Adams Beck

... when current events were flat they even sought the pages of history for these distinctions; as Mr Pitt, Young Brownrigg, and the like. At the period of which we write, he was generally known among the gentlemen as Bailey junior; a name bestowed upon him in contradistinction, perhaps, to Old Bailey; and possibly as involving the recollection of an unfortunate lady of the same name, who perished by her own hand early in life, and has been immortalised in ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... revolution under the fiercer star of Calvin. The English reformation was started by the crown and supported by the new noblesse of commerce. The Scotch revolution was markedly baronial in tone. It began with the humanists, continued and flourished in the junior branches of great families, among the burgesses of the towns and among the more vigorous of the clergy, both regular and secular. The crown was consistently against the new movement, but the Scottish monarch was too weak to impose ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... junior executive, or a man of any age looking for good business and social connections, it seems good to go to a luncheon where you can sit at the head table and call leaders of the community by their first names. Most of the propaganda agencies affiliated with the Council on Foreign ...

— The Invisible Government • Dan Smoot

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