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Senior
Definitions
- 1 Older.
"senior citizen"
- 2 Higher in rank, dignity, or office; superior.
"senior member; senior counsel"
- 3 Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university. US
- 4 Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players above a certain age or level of experience. Canada, US
"senior hockey"
- 1 used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college wordnet
- 2 advanced in years; (‘aged’ is pronounced as two syllables) wordnet
- 3 older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 1 An old person. US
"Grave and reverend seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as badly as the students, and I saw white-bearded men rising and shaking their fists at the obdurate Professor."
- 2 a person who is older than you are wordnet
- 3 Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
"He was four years her senior."
- 4 an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation wordnet
- 5 Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
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- 6 An elder or presbyter in the early Church. obsolete
"Then Peter full of the holy gooſt ſayd vnto them. Ye ruelars of the people / and ſeniours of iſrahel[…]."
- 7 Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
- 8 A final-year student at a high school or university; a finalist. Philippines, US
Etymology
From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
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