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junior

See also: Junior and júnior

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.

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Adjective edit

junior (not generally comparable, comparative more junior, superlative most junior)

  1. (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
  2. (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
    • 2003, Karen Frisch, Creating Junior Genealogists, →ISBN:
      Far less likely to intimidate your junior genealogist is the Internet, with its databases, message and bulletin boards, online collections, and more. Now is also the time to introduce your children to older relatives, who can be valuable resources and provide precious information.
    • 2010, Julie Cross, Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature, →ISBN, page 1:
      Humorous books for junior readers are often ignored by the critical community, due, in part, to what Milner Davis describes as a “conventional bias against comic genres” (1996: 101), and I consider this a serious oversight within the field of children's literature.
    • 2011, Julian Barnes, Knowing French (Storycuts), →ISBN:
      There she is: Lady Margaret Hall, eight years junior to me, exhibitioner where I was top scholar, and reading French. (Not veterinary science.)
    • 2012, Junior Golf in Pictures: The Junior Golfer's Handbook, →ISBN:
      A handbook for junior golfers covering a wide range of golfing instruction and information with over 250 photographs of juniors learning, playing, practicing and enjoying the game of golf.
    • 2013, Krishna Mohan Mishra, Me and Medicine, →ISBN, page 111:
      Instead of going to the unit I walked in the opposite direction towards the medicine lecture room with various thoughts going through my mind — most of them were positive as this was a great opportunity to practise what I had learnt so far and should have a good impact on students who were 3–4 years junior to me and not known to me.
  3. (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
    • 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC:
      Though our first Studies and junior Endeavours may stile us Peripateticks, Stoicks, or Academicks, yet I perceive the wisest Heads prove at last, almost all Scepticks […]
  4. (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.

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Noun edit

junior (plural juniors)

  1. A younger person.
    four years his junior
    • 1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle:
      Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.
    • 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime:
      The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.
  2. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
  3. (chiefly US, Philippines) A third-year student at a high school or university.
  4. (law) A junior barrister.

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Further reading edit

  • “junior”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin juniorem; Doublet of geindre. Cf. also the inherited Old French oblique case gignor.

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Noun edit

junior m or f by sense (plural juniors)

  1. (sports) junior

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Adjective edit

junior (plural juniors)

  1. junior (all senses)

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Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin iunior (“younger”), from Latin iuvenis (“young”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈjunijor]
  • Hyphenation: ju‧ni‧or
  • Rhymes: -or

Noun edit

junior

  1. (sports) junior
    Synonym: ifjúsági

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative junior juniorok
accusative juniort juniorokat
dative juniornak junioroknak
instrumental juniorral juniorokkal
causal-final juniorért juniorokért
translative juniorrá juniorokká
terminative juniorig juniorokig
essive-formal juniorként juniorokként
essive-modal — —
inessive juniorban juniorokban
superessive junioron juniorokon
adessive juniornál junioroknál
illative juniorba juniorokba
sublative juniorra juniorokra
allative juniorhoz juniorokhoz
elative juniorból juniorokból
delative juniorról juniorokról
ablative juniortól junioroktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		junioré junioroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		junioréi juniorokéi

References edit

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading edit

  • junior in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin junior, iūnior, from Proto-Italic *juwenjōs, from *juwenis + *-jōs.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [d͡ʒuˈniɔr]
  • Hyphenation: ju‧ni‧or

Adjective edit

junior

  1. young
    Synonyms: anom, belia, mentah, muda, remaja, yuvenil, yuwana
  2. junior.

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Latin edit

Adjective edit

jūnior (neuter jūnius); third declension

  1. comparative degree of juvenis

Declension edit

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative jūnior jūnius jūniōrēs jūniōra
Genitive jūniōris jūniōrum
Dative jūniōrī jūniōribus
Accusative jūniōrem jūnius jūniōrēs jūniōra
Ablative jūniōre jūniōribus
Vocative jūnior jūnius jūniōrēs jūniōra

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Polish edit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin iūnior.

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Noun edit

junior m pers (feminine juniorka)

  1. (humorous, literary) junior (someone younger than someone else)
    Antonym: senior
  2. (sports) junior (athlete who is under the age recommended for a sport, usually nineteen years of age)

Declension edit

Declension of junior
singular plural
nominative junior juniorzy/juniory (deprecative)
genitive juniora juniorów
dative juniorowi juniorom
accusative juniora juniorów
instrumental juniorem juniorami
locative juniorze juniorach
vocative juniorze juniorzy

Derived terms edit

adjective
noun

Further reading edit

  • junior in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • junior in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French junior or Latin junior.

Adjective edit

junior m or n (feminine singular junioră, masculine plural juniori, feminine and neuter plural juniore)

  1. junior

Declension edit

Declension of junior
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite junior junioră juniori juniore
definite juniorul juniora juniorii juniorele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite junior juniore juniori juniore
definite juniorului juniorei juniorilor juniorelor

Noun edit

junior m (plural juniori)

  1. junior

Declension edit

Declension of junior
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) junior juniorul (niște) juniori juniorii
genitive/dative (unui) junior juniorului (unor) juniori juniorilor
vocative juniorule juniorilor
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