Junior vs. Undergraduate — What's the Difference?

For or denoting young or younger people

A college or university student who has not yet received a bachelor's or similar degree.

Low or lower in rank or status

Of, relating to, or characteristic of undergraduates

A person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else

Having the standing of an undergraduate

A person with low rank or status compared with others

A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

Abbr. Jr. Used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.

Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.

Intended for or including youthful persons

A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course. Contrasted with graduate student.

Lower in rank or shorter in length of tenure

Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates.

Of, for, or constituting students in the third year of a US high school or college

A university student who has not yet received a first degree

Lesser in scale than the usual.

A person who is younger than another

A person lesser in rank or time of participation or service; subordinate.

A student in the third year of a US high school or college.

A class of clothing sizes for girls and slender women. Also called junior miss.

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

Younger.

(not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.

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

A younger person.

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

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

(legal) A junior barrister.

Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated Jr.

Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into a position or office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain; the junior Senator from New York.

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

A younger person.

One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges and four-year high schools, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.

Term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male;

A third-year undergraduate

The younger of two men

A son who has the same first name as his father

Younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service

Used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college;

Including or intended for youthful persons;