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# junior

«junior» in Mova's school dictionary: **younger, or for younger people, as in a junior school or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#m1)

2) Junior means lower in rank or less experienced in a job, as in a junior doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#m2)

3) (US, Canada) A junior is a student in the third year of a four-year high school or college. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#m3)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#m4)

5) (noun) You can be someone's junior, meaning younger than them, as in «three years my junior». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#x1)
- He plays in the junior rugby team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#x2)
- She's a junior doctor working night shifts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#x3)
- In the US, my cousin is a junior in high school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#x4)
- Martin Luther King Jr. was named after his father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#x5)
- My brother is two years my junior. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#x6)
- The juniors had their sports day on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#x7)
- So the junior secretary did not at all mind being left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/#x8)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junior/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.