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JU'NIOR, adjective [Latin 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

JU'NIOR, noun A person younger than another.

The fools, my juniors by a year--