意味(日本語)

年下の ◇jun(ior) L.juvenis(＝youngの比較級)、ju(ve)n＋ior

語源

• -ior : （比較を示す接辞)

意味(英語)

• (adjective) Used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.
• (adjective) Intended for or including youthful persons: a junior sports league.
• (adjective) Lower in rank or shorter in length of tenure: a junior officer; the junior senator.
• (adjective) Of, for, or constituting students in the third year of a U.S. high school or college: the junior class.
• (adjective) Lesser in scale than the usual.

例文

• When the junior senator from Wyoming brandishes a piece of paper on the Senate floor (where, as a character points out, libel laws do not apply) to proclaim, "I have here in my hand ..." he clearly calls out the glowering ghost of the ­junior senator from Wisconsin.