Dictionary Entry
junior
junior is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Less advanced in age than another; younger. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Less advanced in age than another; younger.
- 2adjective
Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.
- 3adjective
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., 2.
- 4noun
Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
- 5noun
A younger person.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
the younger of two persons
"she is two years my junior"
- 8noun
a third-year undergraduate
- 9noun
a son who has the same first name as his father
- 10noun
term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male
"look here, junior, it's none of your business"
- 11adjective
used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
"the junior class"
"a third-year student"
- 12adjective
including or intended for youthful persons
"a junior sports league"
"junior fashions"
- 13adjective
younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
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