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   Junior , a. [L. contr. fr. juvenior, compar. of juvenis young. See Juvenile.]
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   Less advanced in age than another; younger.  Abbreviated Jr.
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   ☞ 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.
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   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.
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   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.
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   Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
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   Our first studies and junior endeavors.
   Sir T. Browne.
   
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   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..
   Syn. -- third-year.
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2.       
   Junior, n.
   A younger person.
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   His junior she, by thirty years.
   Byron.
   
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   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.
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