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junr.

junr. is the abbreviation of junior.

Meaning of junior

Adjective

junior (not generally comparable, comparative more junior, superlative most junior)

  1. (comparable, not comparable, usually) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
    • He uses the leverage of seniority with the more junior employees.
  2. (not comparable, usually, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
    • Far less likely to intimidate your junior genealogist is the Internet, with its databases, message and bulletin boards, online collections, and more. Now is also the time to introduce your children to older relatives, who can be valuable resources and provide precious information.2003, Karen Frisch, Creating Junior Genealogists, →ISBN
  3. (not comparable, usually) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
    • Though our first Studies and junior Endeavours may stile us Peripateticks, Stoicks, or Academicks, yet I perceive the wisest Heads prove at last, almost all Scepticks […]1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC
  4. (US, not comparable, usually) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
  5. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, not comparable, usually) Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
    • Only about half of the schools had a single closing time, while the others organized different times for their infant and junior children.2018 October 3, Maurice Galton, Helen Patrick, Curriculum Provision in the Small Primary School, Routledge, →ISBN
  6. (Canada, US, not comparable, usually) Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.
    • junior hockey

See all 18 meanings of junior

Forms of junr.

pluraljunrs.

Questions about junr.

What is junr. the abbreviation of?
Junr. is the abbreviation of junior.

Words near junr. in the dictionary

  1. Junonian
  2. junonias
  3. Junonic
  4. Junortoun
  5. junque
  6. junr.
  7. junrs.
  8. junse
  9. junshi
  10. junt
  11. Junt.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: junr. (page history and authors); junior (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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