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junior 1. Brit of or relating to schoolchildren between the ages of 7 and 11 approximately 2. US of, relating to, or designating the third year of a four-year course at college or high school 3. Law (in England) any barrister below the rank of Queen's Counsel 4. Brit a junior schoolchild 5. US a junior student junior [′jün·yər] (optics) A 1000- or 2000-watt Fresnel spotlight. Junior (Red Skelton) “the mean widdle kid.” [Radio: “The Red Skelton Show” in Buxton, 197] See : Mischievousness How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As to the minor priests and acolytes of that temple, the result of all this was that they stood divided into two classes, and, down to the junior messenger, either believed in the Circumlocution Office as a heaven-born institution that had an absolute right to do whatever it liked; or took refuge in total infidelity, and considered it a flagrant nuisance. About this time Thersites Junior really began to make something like a reputation, and to walk abroad habitually with a bank-note comfortably lodged among the other papers in his pocketbook. Monsieur Poiret junior, called "junior" to distinguish him from his brother Monsieur Poiret senior (now living in the Maison Vanquer, where Poiret junior sometimes dined, intending to end his days in the same retreat), had spent thirty years in the Civil Service. |
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