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juniors
[joon-yer] 
| Main Entry: |
boy
[boi]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young man |
| Synonyms: | buck, cadet, chap, child, dude*, fellow, gamin, guy, half-pint, junior, lad, little guy, little shaver, master, punk*, puppy, runt, schoolboy, shaver, small fry, sonny, sprout*, squirt, stripling, tadpole, whippersnapper, youngster, youth |
| Antonyms: | girl |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person of lesser rank, importance |
| Synonyms: | adherent, attendant, auxiliary, deputy, disciple, follower, hanger-on, hireling, junior, menial, minion, minor, peon, satellite, second banana, subaltern, subject, subordinate, sycophant, underling |
| Antonyms: | superior |
| Main Entry: | minor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person under legal age of maturity |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, boy, child, girl, infant, junior, juvenile, lad, little one, schoolboy, schoolgirl, teenager, underage, youngster, youth |
| Antonyms: | adult |
| Main Entry: | pupil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is learning something |
| Synonyms: | adherent, attendant, beginner, bookworm, brain*, catechumen, disciple, first-year student, follower, graduate student, junior, learner, neophyte, novice, satellite, scholar, schoolboy/ girl, senior, sophomore, student, tenderfoot, undergraduate |
| Antonyms: | professor, teacher |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offshoot, descendant |
| Synonyms: | begotten, branch, brood, child, chip off old block, graft, heir, heiress, issue, junior, offspring, progeny, seed, shoot, slip, sprout, successor, twig |
| Antonyms: | cause, root, source |
| Main Entry: | student |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person actively learning |
| Synonyms: | apprentice, disciple, docent, first-year student, grad, graduate, junior, learner, novice, observer, pupil, registrant, scholar, schoolchild, skill, sophomore, undergrad, undergraduate |
| Antonyms: | professor, teacher |
| Main Entry: | subordinate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person that serves another |
| Synonyms: | aide, assistant, attendant, dependent, deputy, flunky, gofer, helper, inferior, junior, peon, poor relation, scrub, second, second fiddle, second string, serf, servant, slave, subaltern, third string, underling |
| Antonyms: | boss, chief, leader, major, manager, master, superior |
| Main Entry: | youngster/youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person before the age of maturity |
| Synonyms: | boy, chick*, cub, fledgling, girl, junior, juvenile, juvenile delinquent, kid*, lad, lass, pup, pupil, student, teenager, young person |
| Antonyms: | adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | youngster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child |
| Synonyms: | boy, chick, cub, fledgling, girl, junior, juvenile, juvenile delinquent, kid, lad, lass, little guy, little kid, moppet, punk, pup, pupil, puppy, sapling, shaver, small fry, snotnose kid, sonny, squirt, student, teenager, teenybopper, urchin, young adult, young person, youth |
| Antonyms: | elder |
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