different between junior vs upperclassman

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)

1. (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
2. (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
3. (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 […]

4. (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)

1. 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.

2. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
3. (chiefly US) A third-year student at a high school or university.
4. (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)

1. (sports) junior

Adjective

junior (plural juniors)

1. 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

1. (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

1. young

   Synonyms: anom, belia, mentah, muda, remaja, yuvenil, yuwana

2. 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

1. 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

English

Etymology

upper +? class +? man

Noun

upperclassman (plural upperclassmen)

1. (US) A junior or senior student in a school or college.

Translations

See also

• freshman
• lowerclassman
• underclassman
• upperclasswoman