Usually means: Suffix indicating "junior," same name.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word jr:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jr: Merriam-Webster
  2. Jr: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Jr, jr: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Jr: Collins English Dictionary
  5. JR, Jr, 'jr, jr, jR: Wordnik
  6. Jr, jr: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. JR, Jr, jr: Wiktionary
  8. Jr: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Jr: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Jr: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Jr, jr: Dictionary.com
  12. jr: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. J.R. (musician), JR (South Korean singer), JR (artist), JR (singer), JR, Jr. (singer), Jr: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Jr, jr: Rhymezone
  15. JR, jr, jr: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. jr, jr: FreeDictionary.org
  17. jr, jr: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Jr, jr: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Jr, jr: Vocabulary.com
  20. jr: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. Jr: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jr: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jr, jr: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jr, Jr, Jr: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. JR: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. J.R, J.R, JR, jr: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (JR)

▸ adjective:  (British) A title used after a son's name when his father has the same name.
▸ adjective:  Alternative form of Jr [(British) A title used after a son's name when his father has the same name.]
▸ noun:  Initialism of Japan Railways.
▸ noun:  Abbreviation of West Java, a province of Indonesia. [A province of Indonesia. Capital: Bandung.]
▸ noun:  (UK, healthcare) Initialism of John Radcliffe Hospital; a large hospital in Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Similar:
junior, jnr, boy, child, iii, kid, rev, son, wire, yarn, more...

Opposite:
senior, elder, older, superior, advanced

Types:
son, daughter, nephew, niece, grandson, granddaughter, more...

Phrases:
martin luther king jr, james earl carter jr, oliver wendell holmes jr, albert gore jr, arthur schlesinger jr, more...

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Similar:
junior, jnr, boy, child, iii, kid, rev, son, wire, yarn, more...

Opposite:
senior, elder, older, superior, advanced

Types:
son, daughter, nephew, niece, grandson, granddaughter, more...

Phrases:
martin luther king jr, james earl carter jr, oliver wendell holmes jr, albert gore jr, arthur schlesinger jr, clarence shepard day jr, douglas fairbanks jr, john herschel glenn jr, john milton cage jr, more...



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