Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: junior
IPA transcription: [dʒ'unjɚ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: junior
    Meaning: younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
  • Synonyms: junior(a), third-year, next-to-last
    Meaning: used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: junior
    Meaning: term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male; "look here, junior, it's none of your business"
  • Synonyms: junior
    Meaning: a third-year undergraduate
  • Synonyms: junior
    Meaning: the younger of two persons; "she is two years my junior"
Usage examples
  • She'll be a junior when I'm a freshman.
  • About one-third of the junior class are going to resign from their clubs."
  • Those were anxious moments for me, as well as for the young man who was ten years my junior.
  • In tam o'shanter and tweed skirt Carol felt herself a college junior going out to play hockey.
  • No sooner had the door of the parlour closed upon the cashier than Henry Dunbar turned abruptly to his junior partner.
  • While the banker loitered near the window, Clement Austin came into the room, to show some document to the junior partner.
  • "It may seem late in the day to bid you welcome to the bank, Mr. Dunbar," said the junior partner, "but I do so, nevertheless--most heartily!"
  • The junior partner was sitting at an office table near the fire writing, but he rose as the banker entered the room, and went forward to meet him.
  • "Last year the girls belonging to the present senior and junior classes met on this very spot and amicably disposed of a two-year-old class grudge.
  • He was therefore disposed to send Agrippa, junior, away presently to succeed his father in the kingdom, and was willing to confirm him in it by his oath.