junior

About 12.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.

   He uses the leverage of seniority with the more junior employees.

2. adjective Younger.
3. adjective Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
4. adjective Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
5. adjective Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
6. adjective Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.

   junior hockey

7. adjective Synonym of younger.
8. noun A younger person.

   four years his junior

Similar words

younger young jr subordinate subaltern petty inferior lowly minor lower

Often followed by

high college and year colleges officers partner officer school

Word family

Junior Juniors juniors