junior

(jé’nyor), a. and n. [ of juvenior, compar. of juvenis, young: see juvenile.] I, a. 1. Younger; not as old as another. It is applied to distinguish the younger of two persons bearing the same name in one family or town, and especially to distinguish a son bearing the same name as the father: opposed to senior: as, John Smith, junior. In this use commonly abbreviated J7. or Jun. 2. Younger or lower in standing, as in a profe ion, especially the bar: as, a junior counsel; a junior partner in a firm or company. Mr. Smith, the a istant at a cheap shop; the junior partner in a slippery firm of some three weeks’ existence. Dickens, Sketches. 3. In American colleges and schools, pertaining to the third year of the course, the next below the senior or last year; in institutions having a three years’ course, usually pertaining to the first year (the second being called the middle year): as, the junior cla ; junior students. II, ». 1. A person younger than another. The fools, my juniors by a year, Are tortur’d with suspence and fear; Who wisely thought my age a screen, When death approach’d to stand between. Swift, Death of Dr. Swift. 2. One of le experience or inferior standing in his profe ion than another, who is called his senior; one employed as the subordinate of another, especially at the bar. Not one of them but he think eth himself to haue had a great iniurie dooen vnto him; if,he goe on the lefte hand of another yt semeth to be his ¢untor or infer i our. J. Udall, On Luke xiv. He had been retained as Mr. Sergeant Snubbins’s junior. Dickens, Pickwick, xxx i. 3. In American colleges and seminaries, a member of the junior cla ; a student in the junior year.