junior

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːniə/
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• General-American: /ˈd͡ʒuniɚ/
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• rhymes with -uːniə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: JH UW1 N Y ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.

From junior. The town in West Virginia was established on November 13, 1897, and named after Henry G. Davis Jr. (1871–1896), a son of United States Senator from West Virginia Henry G. Davis (1823–1916) who had been drowned at sea off the Atlantic Coast of South Africa while returning home on the steamship Munkesenton.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: կրտսեր (krtser) — younger
• Belarusian: мало́дшы (malódšy) — younger
• Bulgarian: младши (mladši) — younger
• Bulgarian: по-млад (po-mlad) — younger
• Czech: mladší — younger
• French: junior — younger
• French: jeune — younger
• Galician: máis novo — younger
• Georgian: უმცროსი (umcrosi) — younger
• German: jünger — younger
• Hindi: कनिष्ठ (kaniṣṭh) — younger
• Hungarian: ifjabb — younger
• Italian: giovane — younger
• Japanese: 年下の (toshishita no) — younger
• Kazakh: кіші (kışı) — younger
• Korean: 후배(後輩)의 (hubae-ui) — younger
• Kyrgyz: кичи (kici) — younger
• Kyrgyz: кичүү (kicüü) — younger
• Latin: iūnior — younger
• Māori: muringa — younger
• Persian: کهتر (kehtar) — younger
• Polish: młodszy — younger
• Portuguese: mais novo/jovem — younger
• Russian: мла́дший (mládšij) — younger
• Slovak: mladší — younger
• Slovene: mlajši — younger
• Spanish: júnior — younger
• Spanish: junior — younger
• Tagalog: kubtaunan — younger
• Ukrainian: моло́дший (molódšyj) — younger
• Armenian: կրտսեր (krtser) — someone younger than someone else
• Bulgarian: младши (mladši) — someone younger than someone else
• Chinese Mandarin: 晚輩 /晚辈 (wǎnbèi) — someone younger than someone else
• Chinese Mandarin: 後輩 /后辈 (hòubèi) — someone younger than someone else
• Dutch: jongerejaars — someone younger than someone else
• Finnish: nuorempi — someone younger than someone else
• Galician: mozo — someone younger than someone else
• Georgian: უმცროსი (umcrosi) — someone younger than someone else
• Hindi: कनिष्ठ (kaniṣṭh) — someone younger than someone else
• Japanese: 後輩 (kōhai) — someone younger than someone else
• Japanese: 年下 (toshishita) — someone younger than someone else
• Korean: 후배 (hubae) — someone younger than someone else
• Polish: junior — someone younger than someone else
• Russian: мла́дший (mládšij) — someone younger than someone else
• Spanish: júnior — someone younger than someone else
• Spanish: junior — someone younger than someone else
• Swedish: den yngre — someone younger than someone else
• Swedish: junior — someone younger than someone else
• Tatar: яшь (yäş) — someone younger than someone else
• Tatar: кече (keçe) — someone younger than someone else