Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for JUN-IOR
JUN-IOR, a. [L. from juvenis, young; quasi, juvenior.]
Younger; not as old as another; as, a junior partner in a company. It is applied to distinguish the younger of two persons bearing the same name in one family or town, and opposed to elder; as, John Doe junior.
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