junior
gb/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/ us/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
B1
انگلیسی
~ 2900
معنیها
۰ معنی
adjective
B1
property
1
Lower in position or importance
Lower in position or importance than someone else.
الگوی کاربرد:
[someone] is junior to [someone]
اشتباه رایج:
Learners sometimes confuse 'junior' with 'younger' when talking about rank; 'junior' refers to position, not always age.
هممعنیها
subordinate (More formal and often used in business or military contexts.)
متضادها
senior (Refers to someone with higher rank, position, or status.)
ترکیبهای رایج
junior employee
|junior partner
|junior officer
|junior member
موضوعها
work
|education
|hierarchy
|business
|core_vocabulary
نمونهها
- She is junior to him in the company hierarchy.
- As a junior partner, he has less decision-making power.
- In the military, a junior officer follows orders from higher ranks.
- The junior staff are usually given simpler tasks.
- He started as a junior analyst and worked his way up.
نمونههای زبانآموزی
- I am junior to my boss.
- She is a junior member of the team.
- He is a junior officer in the army.
- This job is for junior workers.
- We have many junior staff here.
adjective
B2
property
2
Younger than another person
Younger than someone else, often in a family.
الگوی کاربرد:
[someone] is junior to [someone] by [time period]
اشتباه رایج:
Learners may overuse 'junior' instead of simply saying 'younger'. In casual speech, 'younger' is more common.
هممعنیها
younger (A more general word for less age.)
متضادها
elder (Refers to someone older in age, especially in family contexts.)
ترکیبهای رایج
junior sibling
|junior colleague
موضوعها
family
|relationships
|core_vocabulary
نمونهها
- He is three years junior to me.
- My brother is junior to me by two years.
- She is the junior sibling in the family.
- He married a woman ten years his junior.
نمونههای زبانآموزی
- I am two years junior to her.
- My sister is junior to me.
- He is my junior brother.
- She married someone five years her junior.
اسم
B1
entity
3
Third-year student in high school or college
A student in the third year of high school or college (in the U.S.).
اشتباه رایج:
Learners may confuse 'junior' with 'freshman' or 'sophomore'. The order is freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.
هممعنیها
third-year student (A neutral descriptive term without regional specificity.)
متضادها
senior (A student in their final year of study.)
ترکیبهای رایج
high school junior
|college junior
موضوعها
education
|core_vocabulary
نمونهها
- She’s a junior at Boston University.
- My son is a high school junior this year.
- Juniors can start applying for internships.
- As a junior, he took advanced classes.
نمونههای زبانآموزی
- I am a junior in college.
- She is a high school junior.
- He became a junior last year.
- Many juniors take part-time jobs.
اسم
B1
entity
4
Person with lower position or rank
A person with a lower position than others at work or school.
هممعنیها
subordinate (More formal and often used in official contexts.)
متضادها
senior (A person with higher rank or status.)
ترکیبهای رایج
train juniors
|mentor juniors
موضوعها
work
|hierarchy
|business
|core_vocabulary
نمونهها
- The seniors help train the juniors.
- She mentors juniors in the law firm.
- As a manager, you must guide your juniors.
- Juniors are expected to learn from seniors.
نمونههای زبانآموزی
- I help new juniors at work.
- Juniors learn from seniors.
- She trains juniors at the office.
- We have ten juniors in our team.
suffix
B2
relation
5
'Jr.' after a son's name with same name as father
'Junior' after a name shows the man has the same name as his father and is younger.
اشتباه رایج:
Learners may incorrectly use 'junior' without understanding it only applies when names are identical between parent and child.
هممعنیها
Jr. (The abbreviated form commonly used in writing.)
موضوعها
names
|relationships
|communication
|core_vocabulary
نمونهها
- Martin Luther King Junior was a civil rights leader.
- His name is John Smith Junior, after his father.
- The award went to Robert Downey Junior.
نمونههای زبانآموزی
- My name is Paul Adams Junior.
- He is called James Brown Junior.
- His son is Michael Johnson Junior.
دستور زبان
صورت پایه
junior
IPA
GB/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
US/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
هجاها و تکیه
ju - ni - or (۳ هجا)
Stress on 1st syllable (ju)
صورتهای واژه
Adjective
- Base: junior
Noun
- Base: junior
- Plural: juniors
خانوادهٔ واژه
Forms
juniors
noun
Negative and opposite forms
senior
adjective B1
عبارتها
be someone's junior
1/bˈi sˈʌmwˌʌnz d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
fixed phrase
Be lower in rank or younger than someone else
To have a lower position or be younger than another person.
نمونهها
- She is my junior by two years at work.
- He is my junior by three ranks in the army.
junior high school
1/d͡ʒˈunjɚ hˈaɪ skˈul/
fixed phrase
School between elementary and high school
A school for students between elementary and high school, usually grades 7–9 in the U.S.
نمونهها
- She teaches math at a junior high school.
- I met him when we were both in junior high school.