junior
part of speech
adjective (junior); noun (a junior, juniors; Junior, a name)
meaning for a pupil
1) Junior means younger, or for younger people, as in a junior school or junior football team. tree →
2) Junior means lower in rank or less experienced in a job, as in a junior doctor. tree →
3) (US, Canada) A junior is a student in the third year of a four-year high school or college. tree →
4) (US) «Junior» (Jr.) is added after the name of a son who has the same name as his father, and «Junior» is sometimes used as his nickname. tree →
5) (noun) You can be someone's junior, meaning younger than them, as in «three years my junior». tree →
sense in the lessons
In the UK, Ireland and Australia, «junior school» is the primary school for children about 7 to 11, and «the juniors» are pupils there. In sport, junior teams are for younger players. In jobs and hospitals, junior means newer or less senior. Phrases: «junior school», «junior league», «junior doctor», «three years my junior».
examples
- My sister moves up to junior school next year. tree →
- He plays in the junior rugby team. tree →
- She's a junior doctor working night shifts. tree →
- In the US, my cousin is a junior in high school. tree →
- Martin Luther King Jr. was named after his father. tree →
- My brother is two years my junior. tree →
- The juniors had their sports day on Friday. tree →
- So the junior secretary did not at all mind being left. tree →
note
Opposite: senior. «Junior to» (not «junior than»): «she is junior to him». In maths, «junior» on its own does not give a number; «three years my junior» means 3 years younger.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «junior» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.