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adjective

Senior adj.

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.

noun

Senior 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. "Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan."

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.

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Etymology of 'Senior'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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