Junior

(jūn'yur) (Synop., § 130), a. [Lat., contracted from juvenior, comparative of juvenis, young.]

1Sense 1. Less old; not so aged; younger; as, a junior partner in a company.

☞ 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; as, John Smith, Junior.

2Sense 2. Belonging to a younger person, or to a junior. “Our first studies and junior endeavors.” Browne.

n. 1. A younger person. “The fools, my juniors by a year.” Swift.

2Sense 2. Hence, of a lower or younger standing; as, specifically, (a.) One in the third year of his collegiate course in an American college, sometimes called junior sophister. See SOPHISTER. (b.) One in the first year of his course at a theological seminary.