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junior
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?u?n??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?unj?/
- Rhymes: -u?ni?(?)
- Hyphenation: ju?nior
Adjective
junior (not generally comparable, comparative more junior, superlative most junior)
- (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
- (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
- (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
- 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
- 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 […]
- 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
- (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
Alternative forms
- juniour (obsolete)
Related terms
Translations
Noun
junior (plural juniors)
- A younger person.
- 1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle
- Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.
- 1939 P. G. Wodehouse, "Uncle Fred in the Springtime":
- The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.
- 1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle
- A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
- (chiefly US) A third-year student at a high school or university.
- (law) A junior barrister.
Antonyms
- senior
Translations
Further reading
- junior at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin junior, juniorem; Doublet of geindre. Cf. also the inherited Old French oblique case gignor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?y.nj??/
Noun
junior m or f (plural juniors)
- (sports) junior
Adjective
junior (plural juniors)
- junior (all senses)
See also
- juveigneur
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iunior (“younger”), from Latin iuvenis (“young”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?junijor]
- Hyphenation: ju?ni?or
- Rhymes: -or
Noun
junior
- (sports) junior
Declension
Synonyms
- ifjúsági
References
Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin junior, i?nior, from Proto-Italic *juwenj?s, from *juwenis + *-j?s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d??u?ni?r]
- Hyphenation: ju?ni?or
Adjective
junior
- young
- Synonyms: anom, belia, mentah, muda, remaja, yuvenil, yuwana
- junior.
Alternative forms
- yunior
Antonyms
- senior
Further reading
- “junior” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Adjective
j?nior (neuter j?nius, positive juvenis); third declension
- Alternative form of i?nior
Declension
Third-declension comparative adjective.
References
- junior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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callow
English
Etymology
From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“callow, bare, bald”), from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European gel(H)wo- (“naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Russian ?????? (gólyj, “nude”), Latin calvus (“bald”), Persian ??? (kal), Sanskrit ????? (kulvá).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kælo?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kal??/
- Rhymes: -æl??
Adjective
callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)
- Unfledged (of a young bird).
- (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
- Antonyms: mature, experienced
- Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
- Shallow or weak-willed.
- (of a brick) Unburnt.
- Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
- (obsolete) Bald.
Translations
Noun
callow (countable and uncountable, plural callows)
- A callow young bird.
- A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
- An alluvial flat.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “callow”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- low-cal
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