junior

1. 1.

   younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service

   Antonymssenior

   Similarjunior-grademinoryounger
2. 2.

   used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college

   “the junior class”

   “a third-year student”

   Synonymsthird-yearnext-to-last

   Similarintermediate
3. 3.

   including or intended for youthful persons

   “a junior sports league”

   “junior fashions”

   Similaryoung

Other forms of junior

plural

juniors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about junior

What does junior mean?

junior means "term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in junior?

junior has 2 syllables: ju-nior. The stress falls on "ju". In IPA it is /ˈdʒunjɚ/.

What is another word for junior?

Close synonyms include Jr, Jnr, third-year, next-to-last. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of junior?

The recorded antonyms are senior.

Is junior a common word?

junior is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with junior?

1 word rhymes with junior. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.