jr

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Definitions

adj

A title used after a son's name when his father has the same name.

adj

Alternative form of Jr.

name

Initialism of Japan Railways.

Abbreviation of West Java: a province of Indonesia.

ADJ.

black, civil, express, white

VERB + JR

get, met, take

JR + NOUN

chuo, foot, man, narita, smith, son, sr, station

PREP.

on, on

ADV.

only, such

noun — a son who has the same first name as his father

Martin Luther King, Jr., a man of peace, was killed by an assassin's bullet.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. persuaded the black citizens to protest peacefully.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., had won his first protest against injustice - peacefully.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., was the son of a black minister.

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Nobody could have guessed, in those days, the place in history that Martin Luther King, Jr. was to have.

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The strike had not been peaceful, however, and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. begged both sides to be patient and calm.

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In some senses, jr is marked as informal, British, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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