junior
gb/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/ us/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
B1
Engleză
~ 2900
Sensuri
0 sensuri
adjective
B1
property
1
Lower in position or importance
Lower in position or importance than someone else.
Tipar de utilizare:
[someone] is junior to [someone]
Greșeală frecventă:
Learners sometimes confuse 'junior' with 'younger' when talking about rank; 'junior' refers to position, not always age.
Sinonime
subordinate (More formal and often used in business or military contexts.)
Antonime
senior (Refers to someone with higher rank, position, or status.)
Colocații
junior employee
|junior partner
|junior officer
|junior member
Teme
work
|education
|hierarchy
|business
|core_vocabulary
Exemple
- 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.
Exemple pentru cursanți
- 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.
Tipar de utilizare:
[someone] is junior to [someone] by [time period]
Greșeală frecventă:
Learners may overuse 'junior' instead of simply saying 'younger'. In casual speech, 'younger' is more common.
Sinonime
younger (A more general word for less age.)
Antonime
elder (Refers to someone older in age, especially in family contexts.)
Colocații
junior sibling
|junior colleague
Teme
family
|relationships
|core_vocabulary
Exemple
- 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.
Exemple pentru cursanți
- 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.
Substantiv
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.).
Greșeală frecventă:
Learners may confuse 'junior' with 'freshman' or 'sophomore'. The order is freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.
Sinonime
third-year student (A neutral descriptive term without regional specificity.)
Antonime
senior (A student in their final year of study.)
Colocații
high school junior
|college junior
Teme
education
|core_vocabulary
Exemple
- 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.
Exemple pentru cursanți
- I am a junior in college.
- She is a high school junior.
- He became a junior last year.
- Many juniors take part-time jobs.
Substantiv
B1
entity
4
Person with lower position or rank
A person with a lower position than others at work or school.
Sinonime
subordinate (More formal and often used in official contexts.)
Antonime
senior (A person with higher rank or status.)
Colocații
train juniors
|mentor juniors
Teme
work
|hierarchy
|business
|core_vocabulary
Exemple
- 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.
Exemple pentru cursanți
- 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.
Greșeală frecventă:
Learners may incorrectly use 'junior' without understanding it only applies when names are identical between parent and child.
Sinonime
Jr. (The abbreviated form commonly used in writing.)
Teme
names
|relationships
|communication
|core_vocabulary
Exemple
- 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.
Exemple pentru cursanți
- My name is Paul Adams Junior.
- He is called James Brown Junior.
- His son is Michael Johnson Junior.
Gramatică
Forma de dicționar
junior
IPA
GB/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
US/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
Silabe și accent
ju - ni - or (3 silabe)
Stress on 1st syllable (ju)
Forme ale cuvântului
Adjective
- Base: junior
Noun
- Base: junior
- Plural: juniors
Familie de cuvinte
Forms
juniors
noun
Negative and opposite forms
senior
adjective B1
Expresii
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.
Exemple
- 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.
Exemple
- She teaches math at a junior high school.
- I met him when we were both in junior high school.