senior
Noun · AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation
- a person who is older than you areSynonyms: elder
Adjective (3)
- older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service“senior officer”
- used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college“the senior prom”Synonyms: fourth-year
- advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)“aged members of the society”“elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper”“senior citizen”Synonyms: agedelderlyolder
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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. [1913 Webster]
2.Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools. [1913 Webster]
1.A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life. [1913 Webster]
2.One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade. [1913 Webster]
3.An aged person; an older. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan.— Emerson.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]