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Definition of junior :
1. A younger person.
2. Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
3. Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2.
4. Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.
5. Less advanced in age than another; younger.
6. Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.
Synonyms:
minor-league, secondary, next-to-last, subaltern, petty, low, third-year, smalltime, over, small
assistant (part of speech: noun)
attorney, patsy, abettor, helpmate, henchman, aide-de-camp, proxy, hireling, backer, associate, acolyte, underling, follower, extra, ancillary, accessory, benefactor, auxiliary, attendant, accomplice, helper, adjunct, agent, functionary, servant, deputy, aide, laborer, aider, stooge, minion, partner, subordinate, lieutenant, flunky, assistant, chaperone, menial, second, employee
inferior (part of speech: adjective)
inferior, dependent, lesser, subservient, under, below
adolescent (part of speech: noun)
young man, teen, young woman, youth, minor, teenager, juvenile, adolescent
servant (part of speech: noun)
chattel, volunteer, helping hand, slave, pawn, peon, worker, subject, serf, vassal, aid, hand, help
young (part of speech: adjective)
boyish, teenage, fresh, unripe, youthful, blooming, callow, inexperienced, puerile, young, immature, girlish, pubescent, child-like, childish, green
subordinate (part of speech: verb)
deferent, compliant, servile, enthralled, subjugated, subjected, lower, submissive, constrained, enslaved, supine, younger, bound, obedient, unfranchised
Usage examples:
- The ground- floor rooms were occupied by junior Fellows, each with a few pupils. - "St. John's College, Cambridge", Robert Forsyth Scott.
- They are never given to any but members of the Junior Class. - "A Collection of College Words and Customs", Benjamin Homer Hall.
- Two days passed again without my seeing Grim, although I called on him repeatedly at the " Junior Staff Officers' Mess" below the Zionist Hospital. - "Jimgrim and Allah's Peace", Talbot Mundy.