Word Finder - junior

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A younger person.

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four years his junior

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A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).

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A third-year student at a high school or university.

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A junior barrister.

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

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(often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.

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Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.

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Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.

He was a junior salesman.

Or maybe it goes back to your junior prom.

It's been like that since—God, junior high school—six, seven years!

The undergraduate is called in his first year a junior freshman, in his second a senior freshman, in his third a junior sophister, and in his fourth a senior sophister.

He returned to office as junior lord of the treasury in December.

The options in plus size junior clothes have changed a lot in the last few years.

Sears sells this cute midnight black cotton empire waist dress in junior plus sizes to 5x.

Junior and senior proms are special events in high schoolers' lives.

When spring rolls around, teenagers all across the United States begin to think about prom attire, and for full-figured girls, finding junior plus size prom dresses is a top priority.

On the fall of Napoleon (1813) the city recovered its independence, and finally, in 1815, was received as the junior member of the Swiss confederation, several bits of French and Savoyard territory (as pointed out above) being added to the narrow bounds of the old Genevese Republic in order to give the town some protection against its non-Swiss neighbours.

Shopping for plus size junior clothes used to be an exercise in frustration.

A favorite for up-to-the-minute plus size junior clothes is Torrid.

There's no better garment to keep you cool in the summer than a junior plus size summer dress.

Made from pretty, lightweight fabrics with figure flattering silhouettes, junior plus size summer dresses can be fun, flirty and extremely practical as summer heats up.

Junior plus size summer dresses come in a variety of lengths and shapes perfect for all occasions.

Plus sized junior dresses come in a variety of trendy shapes, styles and fabrics.

Fortunately for junior girls, there's a wider selection than ever of attractive prom gowns in plus sizes.

You can see what is available whether you're shopping the junior category, looking for something contemporary or shopping for trendy jeans designed to fit your particular curves.

Mickey had outgrown the junior department and that left her with few age-appropriate options in plus size fashions.

Fashions include junior plus and contemporary plus size clothing, including plus size backless tops.

A savvy employer will look for opportunities to allow older workers to act as mentors to more junior staff members.

She has begun seeing someone; a young man who does grounds keeping work at the Country Club and is a half dozen years her junior.

The date of his birth has been disputed, and certain curious facts have been cited in proof of the assertion that he was born on the 7th of January 1768, and that his brother Joseph, who passed as the eldest surviving son, was in reality his junior.

In this capacity Thomas controlled the issue of royal writs and the distribution of ecclesiastical patronage; but it was more important for his future that he had ample opportunities of exercising his personal fascination upon a prince who was comparatively inexperienced, and thirteen or fourteen years his junior.

As compilers of useful manuals may be mentioned also Joseph Szvorenyi, Zoltan Betithy, Alexander Imre, Paul Jambor, Ladislaus Nevy, John Kornyei and Joseph Szinnyei, junior.

During the regency of his half-sister Sophia (1682-1689) he occupied the subordinate position of junior tsar, and after the revolution of 1689 Peter was still left pretty much to himself.

But in Scotland the ordinary judges of the Inner and Outer Houses are called lords ordinary, the junior lord ordinary of the Outer House acts as lord ordinary of the bills, the second junior as lord ordinary on teinds, the third junior as lord ordinary on Exchequer causes.

He was a contemporary of Socrates and Democritus, but senior to them, and was probably somewhat junior to Empedocles, so that his birth may be placed at about 480.

Another influence upon university men and others who have taken holy orders is that of the Younger Clergy Union of the Church Missionary Society (1885) and the Junior Clergy Association of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (1891).

The first workers were Thomas Mayhew, junior and John Eliot at Martha's Vineyard (1643) and Roxbury (1646).

He had Nelson with him as second in command - then a junior admiral but without rival in capacity and in his hold on the confidence of the fleet.

In April 1837 he quitted New Salem, and removed to Springfield, which was the county-seat and was soon to become the capital of the state, to begin practice in a partnership with Stuart, which was terminated in April 1841; from that time until September 1843 he was junior partner to Stephen Trigg Logan (1800-1880), and from 1843 until his death he was senior partner of William Henry Herndon (1818-1891).

The restoration of the elector palatine to part of his lands, and his reinstatement in the electoral office, were important concessions; but on the other hand, the duke of Bavaria kept the Upper Palatinate, the elector palatine becoming the eighth and junior member of the electoral college.

In the French romances Lancelot is a late addition to the Arthurian cycle, his birth is not recorded till long after the marriage of Arthur and Guenevere, and he is at least twenty years the junior of the queen.

The year 1662 found senior and junior pastors like-minded, and both were among the two thousand ejected ministers.

This boy now became king as " Horicus junior."

At the Cambridge tripos (as described by Jebb in 1774, Remarks, &c., pp. 20-31) the first twenty-four candidates were also selected by a preliminary test; they were then divided further into " wranglers" (the disputants, par excellence) and Senior Optimes, the next twelve on the list being called the Junior Optimes.

Within a year or two he became junior partner with Thomas Whieldon of Fenton, then the cleverest master-potter in Staffordshire.

On the 16th of September 1811 Hegel married Marie von Tucher (twenty-two years his junior) of Nuremberg.

There is a separate junior school.

The governor, Mr Vansittart, and Warren Hastings, then a junior member of council, attempted to effect some compromise.

From the junior line of Brunswick-Luneburg the reigning family of Great Britain is descended.

In 1828, after a year's special preparation, young Fremont entered the junior class of the college of Charleston, and here displayed marked ability, especially in mathematics; but his irregular attendance and disregard of college discipline led to his expulsion from the institution, which, however, conferred upon him a degree in 1836.

At seventeen he entered the junior class of Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania; but he studied beyond his strength, and returned to Poland, where for a time he taught in a neighbouring country school.

In 1802 Calhoun entered the junior class in Yale College, and graduated with distinction in 1804.

The is large states are Gwalior, Indore, Rewa, Bhopal, Dhar, Barwani, Datia, Orchha, Charkhari, Chhattarpur, Panna, Dewas (senior branch), Dewas (junior branch), Jaora and Ratlam.

This description, taken from a letter in 1579 by his junior contemporary Sir Peter Young, is very like Beza's fine engraving of him in the Icones - an engraving probably founded on a portrait which was to be sent by Young to Beza along with the letter.

Their duties are chiefly processional, the junior or sub-bedel being the official attendant on the vice-chancellor, before whom he bears a silver mace.

Agreeably to the Persian custom, asserted by his predecessors, of nominating the heir-apparent from the sons of the sovereign without restriction to seniority, he had passed over the eldest, Mahommed Ali, in favor of a junior, Abbas; but, as the nominee died in the lifetime of his father, the old king had proclaimed Mahommed Mirza, the son of Abbas, and his own grandson, to be his successor.

Young Scott was retained as junior counsel in the case, and though he lost the petition he did not fail to improve the opportunity which it afforded for displaying his talents.