Thesaurus results for JUNIOR MISS

junior miss

noun

Definition of junior miss

as in subdebutante

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Recent Examples of junior miss Pageant director Makenzie Kooi said little miss candidates are between 6 and 9, junior miss contestants between 10 and 12, teen between 13 and 15 and those who wish to be Miss Waukegan between 16 and 22. — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2021

Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior miss

Noun

At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.

— Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.

— Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025

Definition of teenybopper

Noun

Among the various aspects of the movie that its English title refers to, not least is the unhinged rampage Lina unleashes at a couple of schoolgirls, a gringa loca on the razor’s edge.

— Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
Sonja Shaw was a mom of two schoolgirls thrown into politics in 2020 by the COVID school lockdowns.

— John Seiler, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026

Definition of schoolgirl

Noun

Cameron, whose season record now stands at 5-7, got 18 swings-and-misses and struck out batters using four different pitches on Saturday, according to Statcast.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2026
Arngrim, 64, has a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it (yet still unforgettable) moment in Episode 2 of the Netflix series playing Ida, a forest drifter who meets up with Laura (Alice Halsey) and her older sister Mary (Skywalker Hughes).

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 July 2026