{
    "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’."
}