adj.
- for or denoting young or younger people.
▸Brit. for or denoting schoolchildren aged 7–11.
▸N. Amer. of or for students in the third year of a four-year course at college or high school.
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[postpos.]
denoting the younger of two with the same name in a family.
- low or lower in rank or status.
n.
- a person who is a specified amount younger than someone else:
he's five years her junior.
- Brit. a child at a junior school.
▸N. Amer. a student in the third year at college or high school.
▸(in sport) a young competitor, typically under 16 or 18.
▸N. Amer. informal a nickname for one's young son.
- a person of low rank or status.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from L., compar. of juvenis ‘young’.