Senior
['siːnɪə;'siːnjə] or ['sinɪɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation.
(adj.) older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; 'senior officer' .
(adj.) used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college; 'the senior prom' .
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Definition
(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.
(a.) Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
(n.) A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
(n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
(n.) An aged person; an older.
(n.) 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.
Editor: Pedro
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Older, elder.
n. Elder.
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Definition
adj. elder: older in office.—n. one older than another the elder of two persons in one family bearing the same name: one older in office: an aged person: one of the older fellows of a college a student in the fourth year of the curriculum.—v.i. Sē′niorise to lord it over.—n. Sēnior′ity priority of birth or of service: a body of seniors—also Sē′niory (Shak.).
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Examples
- Thank'ee, my dear,' said Mr. Weller, senior. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The senior partner took the coach, and the junior partner took his walking-stick. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr. Ablewhite, senior, refused to lend his son a farthing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They're all on 'em men as has met vith some disappointment in life,' said Mr. Weller, senior. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I am under obligations to you, I know it, a d--d deal too well too; but I won't be always sermonised by you because you're five years my senior. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was the senior major-general after myself within the department. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Ord had joined Hurlbut on the 4th and being senior took command of his troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The maidservant of Mrs. Rushworth, senior, threatened alarmingly. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I am very glad to hear it, sir,' said Mr. Winkle, senior. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Fine mornin', Sir,' said Mr. Weller, senior. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Vell, George,' said Mr. Weller senior, taking off his upper coat, and seating himself with his accustomed gravity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Both stood on one side, the tall junior behind the under-sized senior, looking forth carefully, so that they might not be visible from without. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Although the senior in rank at the time I had been so only a few weeks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I am at present of a different opinion,' calmly replied Mr. Winkle, senior. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Are we, I wonder, quite such genuine boys and girls now as our seniors were in their time? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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