senior

Meanings

Plural: seniors

Noun

• an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation
• a person who is older than you are
• An old person.
• Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
• Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
• An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
• Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
• A final-year student at a high school or university; a finalist.

Adjective

• older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service
  • "senior officer"

Adjective Satellite

• used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college
  • "the senior prom"
• advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
  • "senior citizen"

Adj

• Older.
• Higher in rank, dignity, or office; superior.
• Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
• Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players above a certain age or level of experience.

Synonyms

aged, ager, antique, badge-cove, cheeser, coffin dodger, crinkly, eld, elder, elderly, fourth-year, geezer, genarian, geriatric, grayhead, greyhead, hoarhead, long in the tooth, masters, mzee, no spring chicken, old, old timer, old-timer, older, older adult, oldie, oldster, oldtimer, on in years, senior, senior citizen, silver top, twirly, veteran, weazen, wrinkly

Antonyms

junior

Related Words

senate, senile, sir

Anagrams of senior