junior
gb/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/ us/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
B1
Anglų
~ 2900
Reikšmės
0 reikšmių
adjective
B1
property
1
Lower in position or importance
Lower in position or importance than someone else.
Vartosenos šablonas:
[someone] is junior to [someone]
Dažna klaida:
Learners sometimes confuse 'junior' with 'younger' when talking about rank; 'junior' refers to position, not always age.
Sinonimai
subordinate (More formal and often used in business or military contexts.)
Antonimai
senior (Refers to someone with higher rank, position, or status.)
Kolokacijos
junior employee
|junior partner
|junior officer
|junior member
Temos
work
|education
|hierarchy
|business
|core_vocabulary
Pavyzdžiai
- 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.
Mokymuisi skirti pavyzdžiai
- 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.
Vartosenos šablonas:
[someone] is junior to [someone] by [time period]
Dažna klaida:
Learners may overuse 'junior' instead of simply saying 'younger'. In casual speech, 'younger' is more common.
Sinonimai
younger (A more general word for less age.)
Antonimai
elder (Refers to someone older in age, especially in family contexts.)
Kolokacijos
junior sibling
|junior colleague
Temos
family
|relationships
|core_vocabulary
Pavyzdžiai
- 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.
Mokymuisi skirti pavyzdžiai
- 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.
Daiktavardis
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.).
Dažna klaida:
Learners may confuse 'junior' with 'freshman' or 'sophomore'. The order is freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.
Sinonimai
third-year student (A neutral descriptive term without regional specificity.)
Antonimai
senior (A student in their final year of study.)
Kolokacijos
high school junior
|college junior
Temos
education
|core_vocabulary
Pavyzdžiai
- 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.
Mokymuisi skirti pavyzdžiai
- I am a junior in college.
- She is a high school junior.
- He became a junior last year.
- Many juniors take part-time jobs.
Daiktavardis
B1
entity
4
Person with lower position or rank
A person with a lower position than others at work or school.
Sinonimai
subordinate (More formal and often used in official contexts.)
Antonimai
senior (A person with higher rank or status.)
Kolokacijos
train juniors
|mentor juniors
Temos
work
|hierarchy
|business
|core_vocabulary
Pavyzdžiai
- 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.
Mokymuisi skirti pavyzdžiai
- 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.
Dažna klaida:
Learners may incorrectly use 'junior' without understanding it only applies when names are identical between parent and child.
Sinonimai
Jr. (The abbreviated form commonly used in writing.)
Temos
names
|relationships
|communication
|core_vocabulary
Pavyzdžiai
- 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.
Mokymuisi skirti pavyzdžiai
- My name is Paul Adams Junior.
- He is called James Brown Junior.
- His son is Michael Johnson Junior.
Gramatika
Pagrindinė forma
junior
IPA
GB/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
US/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
Skiemenys ir kirčiavimas
ju - ni - or (3 skiemenys)
Stress on 1st syllable (ju)
Žodžio formos
Adjective
- Base: junior
Noun
- Base: junior
- Plural: juniors
Žodžių šeima
Forms
juniors
noun
Negative and opposite forms
senior
adjective B1
Posakiai
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.
Pavyzdžiai
- 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.
Pavyzdžiai
- She teaches math at a junior high school.
- I met him when we were both in junior high school.