Meaning

2 senses

  1. (ambitransitive)To work in a junior role (on something).

  2. (transitive)To have juniors (more advanced students) assist in instructing (beginners).

Examples

214 sentences

  1. I'm a junior high school student.

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  2. I'm a junior in high school.

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  3. I know Tom is a junior.

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  4. Tom is a junior in college.

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  5. Tom is a high school junior.

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Origin

Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative

Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.

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Forms

juniors, junioring, juniored, juniored
Base formjunior · to junior
3rd person singularjuniors
Present participlejunioring
Past simplejuniored
Past participlejuniored

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyjunior
he, she, itjuniors

Past simpleLesson

all personsjuniored

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave juniored
he, she, ithas juniored

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill junior

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

9 patterns
  • junior high school
  • junior high
  • in junior high
  • a junior high
  • were in junior
  • is a junior
  • junior in high
  • still in junior
  • a junior in

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
junctionjuncturejungleB1juniperjunkA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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