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junior

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1. junior - Noun

2. junior - Adjective

3. junior - Adjective Satellite

4. Junior - Proper noun

Meaning

Less advanced in age than another; younger.

Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.

Composed of 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.

Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.

A younger person.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. Sylvester Stallone

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir? Asif Ali Zardari

The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has started a prairie fire, which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. J. William Fulbright

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961. Sue Grafton

We have a lot of fun every year, and I really enjoy being part of junior golf and the development of these players. Tiger Woods

A junior will always do what the senior does. Indonesian Proverb

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