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Senior   /sˈinjər/   Listen
Senior

adjective
1.
Older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service.  Antonym: junior.
2.
Used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college.  Synonym: fourth-year.
3.
Advanced in years; ('aged' is pronounced as two syllables).  Synonyms: aged, elderly, older.  "Elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper" , "Senior citizen"
noun
1.
An undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation.
2.
A person who is older than you are.  Synonym: elder.



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"Senior" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the UK, where applicable, apply; the senior magistrate from the Falkland Islands presides over the ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... active, powerful, is Drummond; the other, a younger man by a brace of years, tall, blue-eyed, blonde-bearded, wearing on his scouting-blouse the straps of a second lieutenant, is our old friend Wing, and Wing does not hesitate in presence of his senior officer—such is the bond of friendship between them—to draw from his breast-pocket a letter just received that day when the courier met them at the crossing of the Dry Fork, and to lose himself ...
— Foes in Ambush • Charles King
... call upon the senior partner earlier than usual on the morning after Mrs. Day's New Year's Dance, but not so early that Sir Francis Forcus had not received a visitor before him. A visitor who had upset the equanimity of that always outwardly unruffled, ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... laugh at my mentioning that, because you will not conceive that I understand it; perhaps I do not, but I perfectly remember how (I) have heard and read it described to be, and it is as different from what our present Patriots or Whigs represent it, as the Government of the Grand Senior (Signer). ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
... moved more slowly. Rear Admiral Sicard, in command of the North Atlantic squadron based on Key West, was retired in March for physical disability and succeeded by William T. Sampson, who stepped up naturally from senior captain in the squadron and was already distinguished for executive ability and knowledge of ordnance. Sampson's first proposal was, in the event of hostilities, a bombardment of Havana, a plan approved by ...
— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott


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