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Senior   /sˈinjər/   Listen
Senior

adjective
1.
Older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service.
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



... as I'm senior, you'll have to bustle about a bit. I won't be too hard on you, but you'll have to look sharp and pick up things. I dare say I can put you up to a good ...
— Sail Ho! - A Boy at Sea • George Manville Fenn
... Anthony Robeson, Senior, walked across the room in a dim, gray fog which obscured nearly everything except the sight of a pair of eyes which were shining upon him brightly enough to penetrate any fog. At the bedside ...
— The Indifference of Juliet • Grace S. Richmond
... came the junior partner. You wouldn't square him: you lost your job! There's always a junior partner in every business—when there isn't a senior. There's nothing to it if you stand in with the firm. ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... Charles Rambert to immediate examination, both of the young people being much too upset to be able to reply to serious questions, and both having been taken away to the house of the Baronne de Vibray. It was, also, clear that M. Rambert senior, who had only arrived after the crime, could ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... have rendered solemn thanks for having been trained amongst the gentlest of sisters, and not under "horrid pugilistic brothers." Meantime, one such brother I had, senior by much to myself, and the stormiest of his class: him I will immediately present to the reader; for up to this point of my narrative he may be described as a stranger even to myself. Odd as it sounds, I had at this time both a brother and a ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey


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