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Difference Between Junior and Teenager

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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

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