Thesaurus: senior

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1. 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.
2. a. Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
3. n. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
4. n. One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
5. n. An aged person; an older.
6. 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.
7. adj. older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service
8. adj. used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college
9. adj. advanced in years; (‘aged’ is pronounced as two syllables)
10. n. an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation
11. n. a person who is older than you are
12. 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. Dryden. Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan. 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.