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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Junior \Jun"ior\, noun
1. A younger person.
His junior she, by thirty years. --Byron.
2. Hence: 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Junior \Jun"ior\ (j[=u]n"y[~e]r; 277), adjective [L. contr. fr. juvenior, compar. of juvenis young. See {Juvenile}.]
1. Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated Jr. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Note: Junior is applied to distinguish the younger of two persons bearing the same name in the same family, and is opposed to {senior or elder}. Commonly applied to a son who has the same Christian name as his father.
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. --Sir T. Browne.
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], noun.
Syn: third-year. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
junior
adjective
1: younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service [ant: {senior}]
2: used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student" [syn: {junior(a)}, {third-year}, {next-to-last}]
3: including or intended for youthful persons; "a junior sports league"; "junior fashions"
noun
1: term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male; "look here, junior, it's none of your business"
2: a third-year undergraduate
3: the younger of two men
4: a son who has the same first name as his father [syn: {Jr}, {Jnr}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "junior": adolescent, after, assistant, attendant, baby, cadet, cog, common, commonality, commonalty, consecutive, creature, demeaning, disadvantaged, employee, ensuing, fledgling, flunky, follower, following, freshman, helper, hoi polloi, hopeful, humble, in the shade, infant, inferior, infra dig, juvenal, juvenile, later, less, lesser, lightweight, lineal, low, lower, lower class, lower orders, lowly, masses, midshipman, minor, modest, ordinary, pawn, plebe, posterior, pubescent, puisne, right-hand man, sapling, second fiddle, second rank, second string, secondary, senior, sequent, servant, servile, slip, soph, sophomore, sprig, stripling, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subsequent, subservient, succeeding, successive, teenager, teener, teenybopper, third rank, third string, third stringer, undergrad, undergraduate, underling, underprivileged, understrapper, upperclassman, vulgar, yes-man, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Junior, WV (town, FIPS 42244) Location: 38.97728 N, 79.95050 W Population (1990): 542 (213 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Junior, WV -- U.S. town in West Virginia Population (2000): 450 Housing Units (2000): 202 Land area (2000): 0.297856 sq. miles (0.771443 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.022755 sq. miles (0.058935 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.320611 sq. miles (0.830378 sq. km) FIPS code: 42244 Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54 Location: 38.977379 N, 79.950300 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Junior, WV Junior
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