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Entry 6 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Senior

/sēn'-yẽr/ · Sen·ior · IPA /ˈsinjɚ/
01 a. More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; seni…
  1. 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. 2.
    Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
02 n. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
  1. 1.
    A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
  2. 2.
    One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
  3. 3.
    An aged person; an older.
    “Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan.” — Emerson.
  4. 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. Also: senior sophister