junior

Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.

Younger.

Far less likely to intimidate your junior genealogist is the Internet, with its databases, message and bulletin boards, online collections, and more. Now is also the time to introduce your children to older relatives, who can be valuable resources and provide precious information.

Humorous books for junior readers are often ignored by the critical community, due, in part, to what Milner Davis describes as a “conventional bias against comic genres” (1996: 101), and I consider this a serious oversight within the field of children's literature.

Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.

Though our first Studies and junior Endeavours may stile us Peripateticks, Stoicks, or Academicks, yet I perceive the wisest Heads prove at last, almost all Scepticks […]

Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.

Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.

Only about half of the schools had a single closing time, while the others organized different times for their infant and junior children.

A younger person.

four years his junior

Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.

A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).

A clothing size for girls or women.

A third-year student at a high school or university.

A student in a junior school or the second part of a primary school.

My son is now a junior at another, bigger school; but our hopes for his schooling have really remained the same. Of course, we want him to be able to read and keep up at maths but the fact that he is still so enthusiastic about his school and his teacher and his classmates

To work in a junior role (on something).

Greenspan had juniored the Demeter murder trial with defence lawyer Joe Pomerant and was, by 1980, well on his way to becoming the most renowned criminal lawyer in Canada.

Stephens brought with him a general manager, Bob Rodgers. Bob […] never let adversity faze him. He was always in charge. Mr. Rodgers could dance just enough to do some junioring, but acted primarily as a sales manager.

To have juniors (more advanced students) assist in instructing (beginners).

2006, Jim and Leann Rathbone, James Mitose and the Path of Kenpo The technique of "junioring" beginners and the first five lesson plan and private lessons were adaptations developed at that time. They are credited with the Americanization of Karate as a business as well as a martial art.