senior

• seniour (obsolete)

From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, sire, sir, and señor.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsinjɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːnjə(r)/

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• Hyphenation: se‧nior

senior (comparative more senior, superlative most senior)

1. Older; superior

   senior citizen

2. Higher in rank, dignity, or office.

   senior member; senior counsel

3. (US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.

• (older): geriatric, long in the tooth, on in years; see also Thesaurus:elderly

• junior

• senile
• senate
• sir

senior (plural seniors)

1. (now chiefly US) An old person.

   Synonyms: senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Question!’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343, page 77:

     Grave and reverend seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as badly as the students, and I saw white-bearded men rising and shaking their fists at the obdurate Professor.

2. Someone older than someone else (with possessive). [from 15th c.]

   He was four years her senior.

3. Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age. [from 14th c.]
4. (obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church. [14th–16th c.]
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Acts :[8], folio clviij, recto:

     Then Peter full of the holy gooſt ſayd vnto them. Ye ruelars of the people / and ſeniours of iſrahel […].

5. Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
6. (US, Philippines) A final-year student at a high school or university. [from 17th c.]

• junior

• senior in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• senior in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• Ireson, Nerios, Serino, irones, nories, nosier, rosein, seroin

Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of sire, seigneur, and sieur.

• IPA^(key): /se.njɔʁ/

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senior m (plural seniors)

1. (sports) senior (older player)
2. elderly person

• “senior”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”). Doublet of senyur and sinyo.

• IPA^(key): [sɛˈniɔr]
• Hyphenation: sè‧ni‧or

senior

1. senior
   1. older; superior
   2. higher in rank, dignity, or office.

• (in rank) kanan (Standard Malay)

• “senior” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Latin senior.

senior (comparative plus senior, superlative le plus senior)

1. older

senior (plural seniors)

1. lord

Comparative of senex.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.or/, [ˈs̠ɛniɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.or/, [ˈsɛːnior]

senior (neuter senius); third declension

1. comparative degree of senex
   1. older, elder; rather old

      Antonym: iūnior

Third-declension comparative adjective.

senior m (genitive seniōris); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a lord, sir

   Coordinate term: seniorissa

2. (Medieval Latin) an abbot
3. (Medieval Latin) a husband
4. old person, old man, older person, older man

Third-declension noun.

• “senior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “senior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• senior in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• senior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• senior in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• īnserō
• oriēns

Borrowed from Latin senior.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɲɔr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɲɔr
• Syllabification: se‧nior

senior m pers (feminine seniorka)

1. elder (older person)

   Antonym: junior

• senior in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• senior in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French senior, itself borrowed from Latin senior.

senior m or n (feminine singular senioră, masculine plural seniori, feminine and neuter plural seniore)

1. senior

Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of señor.

• IPA^(key): /seˈnjoɾ/ [seˈnjoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: se‧nior

senior m (plural seniores)

1. senior (clarification of this definition is needed)