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