junior varsity

1. 1.

   a college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team

   SynonymsJV

   Broaderteam

Questions about junior varsity

What does junior varsity mean?

junior varsity means "a college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team".

What is another word for junior varsity?

Close synonyms include JV. 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.

Is junior varsity a common word?

junior varsity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.