Low or lower in rank or status
“If a senior advocate is appearing in any other court, aside from the Supreme Court, he must be accompanied by a junior lawyer.”
New or inexperienced for a given role or position
“He points with pride to the motivation and competence of very junior and inexperienced men and women, whose enterprise and initiatives so often prevented errors and emergencies.”
For, or denoting, young or younger people
“It held that elders should have authority over junior members of the family.”
The younger (typically son) of someone of the same name
“Teen comedy star Freddie Prinze Junior was seen walking with his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar to the set of her new HBO show.”
Unimportant or insignificant in nature
Below the usual or expected size
Not senior
Of less than average height from top to bottom, or to the top from the ground
One ranked below, and typically employed to assist, a senior person
“Afzal was a budding lawyer, and for several years, he worked as a junior to Barrister Abu Sayed Chowdhury, who became Judge of the High Court at Dhaka.”
A male child or youth
A descendant of a notable family
A trainee in the military or army
The period in school that comes after tenth grade and before twelfth grade
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