Junior /(jūn"yẽr; 277)/

Jun·ior

Junior

a.
  1. Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated Jr.
  2. Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into a position or office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain; the junior Senator from New York.
  3. Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; the junior baseball league; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2.
  4. Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
    Our first studies and junior endeavors.
  5. of or relating to the third year of a four-year term; -- used of the third or next to final year in a U. S. high school or college. See junior{2}, n..

Junior

n.
  1. A younger person.
    His junior she, by thirty years.
  2. One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges and four-year high schools, 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.