junior college

noun

: an educational institution that offers two years of studies corresponding to those in the first two years of a four-year college and that often offers technical, vocational, and liberal studies to the adults of a community

Examples of junior college in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Those who get lost in the new-wave draft shuffle are the promising high school prospects and the junior college gems. — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026

In four seasons the basketball team went 93-24 and reached the national junior college tourney semifinals three times. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026

Over in Nevada, UNLV defensive lineman Cohen Fuller, who graduated high school in 2022, has brought a lawsuit objecting to the NCAA counting Fuller’s seasons played in junior college and in the NAIA. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 July 2026

Arturo Holmes / Getty Images Before Michigan, Lendeborg spent two seasons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and another at Arizona Western in junior college. — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 23 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1899, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for junior college

• foreknowledge
• acknowledge
• precollege
• haulage
• knowledge

Kids Definition

junior college

noun

: a school that offers two years of studies similar to those in the first two years of a four-year college