senior
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (3)
- older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service“senior officer”Opposite juniorSimilar elder, major, precedential, rankingRelates to seniority, senior statusSee also old
- used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college“the senior prom”Synonyms: fourth-yearOpposite 1stSimilar last
- 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”Synonyms: agedelderlyolderOpposite immatureSimilar old
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Translations
Adjective older, elder
- Spanish
- mayor
- Italian
- anziano
- Portuguese
- mais velho
- Russian
- ста́рший stáršij
- Dutch
- oudere
- Swedish
- senior
- Hungarian
- idős
- Portuguese (PT)
- sénior
- Catalan
- gran
- Finnish
- vanhempi
1 more language
- Georgian
- უფროსი uprosi
Noun someone older than someone else
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. senior, compar. of senex, gen. senis, old. See Sir.
1. More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
2. Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
2. One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
3. An aged person; an older. John Dryden
Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54