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senior |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Senior \Sen"ior\, n. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}] n 1: an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation 2: a person who is older than you are [syn: {elder}]
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