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Meaning of 'senior' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Senior [ a.]
- More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
- Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
2 . Senior [ n.]
- A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
- One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
- An aged person; an older.
- One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

Meaning of 'senior' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . senior [ a]
Meaning (1):
- older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service
Example in sentence:
  • senior officer
2 . senior [ s]
Meaning (2):
- advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
Example in sentence:
  • aged members of the society;
  • elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper;
  • senior citizen
Meaning (3):
- used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college
Example in sentence:
  • the senior prom

Nearby Words:

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