senior
Speech parts
1. senior - Noun
2. senior - Adjective
3. senior - Adjective Satellite
4. Senior - Proper noun
Meaning
More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
An aged person; an older.
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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In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
A junior will always do what the senior does.
Where there's a senior the minor yields, said the chick in the cage.