Junior vs. Teenager — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Junior and Teenager
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Definitions
Junior
For or denoting young or younger people
Junior tennis
Teenager
A person between the ages of 13 and 19; an adolescent.
Junior
Low or lower in rank or status
Part of my function is to supervise those junior to me
A junior minister
Teenager
A person between 13 and 19 years old.
Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.
Junior
A person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else
He's five years her junior
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Teenager
A person whose age is in the teens, i.e. one between the ages of 13 to 19 inclusive.
Junior
A person with low rank or status compared with others
An office junior
Teenager
A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
Junior
Abbr. Jr. Used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.
Junior
Intended for or including youthful persons
A junior sports league.
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Junior
Lower in rank or shorter in length of tenure
A junior officer.
The junior senator.
Junior
Of, for, or constituting students in the third year of a US high school or college
The junior class.
Junior
Lesser in scale than the usual.
Junior
A person who is younger than another
A sister four years my junior.
Junior
A person lesser in rank or time of participation or service; subordinate.
Junior
A student in the third year of a US high school or college.
Junior
A class of clothing sizes for girls and slender women. Also called junior miss.
Junior
(comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
Junior
Younger.
Junior
(not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
Junior
Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
Junior
A younger person.
Four years his junior
Junior
A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
Junior
A third-year student at a high school or university.
Junior
(legal) A junior barrister.
Junior
Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated Jr.
Junior
Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into a position or office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain; the junior Senator from New York.
Junior
Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
Our first studies and junior endeavors.
Junior
A younger person.
His junior she, by thirty years.
Junior
One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges and four-year high schools, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.
Junior
Term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male;
Look here, junior, it's none of your business
Junior
A third-year undergraduate
Junior
The younger of two men
Junior
A son who has the same first name as his father
Junior
Younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
Junior
Used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college;
The junior class
A third-year student
Junior
Including or intended for youthful persons;
A junior sports league
Junior fashions