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The word junior

Posted by Heleno on November 26, 2001

I'd like to know the meaning of the word 'junior' in the following sentence:

"He married with a girl who was twenty years his 'junior'.

Junior in this case is not his younger son, once he married in an advanced age, and never had had son.

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