Junior vs boy
boy vs JuniorJunior and boy both are nouns.
Junior is an adjective but boy is not an adjective.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| boy | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
boy is a hypernym of
Junior; that is, boy is a
word with a broader meaning than Junior:
- Junior: a son who has the same first name as his father
- boy: a male human offspring
Other hypernyms of Junior include
son.
| Junior (noun) | boy (noun) |
|---|---|
| a son who has the same first name as his father | a youthful male person |
| (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man | |
| a friendly informal reference to a grown man | |
| a male human offspring |
| Junior (adjective) | boy (adjective) |
|---|---|
| used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father |
Words related to "boy"
- Black man
- Esau
- Fauntleroy
- Jnr
- Jr
- Junior
- Little Lord Fauntleroy
- Scout
- adult male
- altar boy
- ball boy
- bat boy
- boyhood
- broth of a boy
- broth of a man
- catamite
- cub
- depreciation
- derogation
- disparagement
- ethnic slur
- farm boy
- girl
- lad
- laddie
- male
- male child
- male offspring
- male person
- mama's boy
- mamma's boy
- man
- man-child
- mother's boy
- one of the boys
- ploughboy
- plowboy
- schoolboy
- shop boy
- son
- sonny
- sonny boy
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