senior adj

1 older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer" [ant: junior]

2 used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college; "the senior prom" [syn: senior(a), fourth-year]

3 advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: aged, elderly, older]

1 an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

2 a person who is older than you are [syn: elder]

English

Etymology

Comparative form, from Latin senex, old.

Adjective

1. older
2. Higher in rank within a publicly traded company or other organization.
3. of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school or university.

Noun

1. an older person

   four years her senior

2. a final-year student at a high school or university.

Antonyms

• junior

Derived terms

• seniority
• senior school

Translations

• Finnish: vanhempi

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin senior "older"

Adjective

senior

1. older

Noun

senior (plural: seniors)

1. lord

Latin

Adjective

senior, senioris (comparative form of the adjective senex).

1. older, elder

Related terms

• senate
• senex

Senior is Latin for "elder."

Senior can refer to:

• A person of old age
• A student in the last (usually fourth) year at a college or university
  • A student in the twelfth grade, in high school. Year 11 and 12 in Australia are called seniors
• A suffix (name) for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent
• Nassau William Senior (1790-1864), an English economist
• Julio Ximenes Senior (1901-1975), a Brazilian scientist and Army general

See also

• Senioritis

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