Junior Noun Bre ˈdʒuːniə(R ˈdʒuːniər Office Coached Leading

• office juniors
• she has coached many of our leading juniors.
• at 16, he’s still eligible to play for the juniors.
• sam is going to be a junior next year.

junior

1. a person who has a job at a low level within an organization
• office juniors
2. a young person below a particular age, rather than an adult
• She has coached many of our leading juniors.
• At 16, he’s still eligible to play for the juniors.
3. a child who goes to junior school
• See related entries: People in schools
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/people_in_schools/junior_2
• Sam is going to be a junior next year.
4. a student in the year before the last year at high school or college
• compare sophomore
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/sophomore
5. a person’s young son
• I leave junior with Mom when I'm at work.
6. to be younger than somebody, by the number of years mentioned
• She's four years his junior.
• She's his junior by four years.

Word Origin

• Middle English (as an adjective following a family name): from Latin, comparative of juvenis ‘young’.