senior

5 definitions found

senior - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Senior \Sen"ior\, a. [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.
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     2. Belonging to the final year of the regular course in
        American colleges, or in professional schools.
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  Senior \Sen"ior\, n.
     1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in
        life.
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     2. One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was
        anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
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     3. An aged person; an older. --Dryden.
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              Each village senior paused to scan,
              And speak the lovely caravan.         --Emerson.
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     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.
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senior - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, senior]
      n 1: an undergraduate student during the year preceding
           graduation
      2: a person who is older than you are [syn: elder, senior]

senior - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  SENIOR. The elder. This addition is sometimes made to a man's name, when two 
  persons bear the same, in order to distinguish them. In practice when 
  nothing is mentioned, the senior is intended. 3 Miss. R. 59. See Junior. 
  
  

senior - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "senior":
     A per se, absolute, ace, ancient, antecedent, anterior,
     anticipatory, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized,
     autocratic, better, boss, brass hat, cadet, champion, chief,
     ci-devant, clothed with authority, commander, commanding,
     competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, dean,
     dominant, doyen, doyenne, duly constituted, earlier, early, elder,
     eldest, eminent, empowered, ex officio, father, first, first-born,
     firstling, fore, foregoing, former, freshman, fugleman, genius,
     golden-ager, governing, great, head, hegemonic, hegemonistic,
     high priest, higher-up, imperative, important, important person,
     influential, junior, kingfish, kingpin, laureate, leader, leading,
     major, master, midshipman, mighty, momentous, monocratic,
     nonpareil, official, old-timer, older, oldest, paragon, personage,
     plebe, potent, powerful, preceding, precurrent, preeminent,
     preexistent, prestigious, previous, prime, primogenitary,
     principal, prior, prodigy, prominent, puissant, ranking, ruler,
     ruling, senior citizen, sire, soph, sophomore, star, substantial,
     superior, superman, superstar, supreme, the greatest, the most,
     top dog, totalitarian, undergrad, undergraduate, upperclassman,
     virtuoso, weighty