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{
"term": "junior",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "having a low rank in an organization or a profession",
"sensetop": "junior to somebody",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **junior partner/minister/officer**"
},
{
"text": "She is junior to me.",
"contextForm": "junior to somebody"
},
{
"text": "He's quite junior in the organization."
},
{
"text": "a very junior officer"
}
],
"topics": ["Jobs"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be"],
"adverb": ["very", "fairly", "relatively"],
"preposition": ["to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "connected with young people below a particular age, rather than with adults, especially in sports",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's a member of the club's **junior team**."
},
{
"text": "the world junior tennis championships"
}
],
"topics": ["Sports: other sports"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "(especially in the US) used after the name of a man who has the same name as his father, to make it clear who is being referred to",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Family and relationships"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "for children under the age of 11 or 13",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the junior section of the school"
}
],
"topics": ["Education"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "connected with the year before the last year in a high school or college",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I spent my junior year in France."
}
],
"topics": ["Education"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒuːniə(r)/",
"audio": "ju/junior/junior__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒuːniər/",
"audio": "ju/junior/junior__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (as an adjective following a family name): from Latin, comparative of juvenis ‘young’."
}