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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation;

2. a person who is older than you are;
[syn: elder, senior]


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service;
- Example: "senior officer"

2. used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college;
- Example: "the senior prom"
[syn: senior(a), fourth-year]

3. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);
- Example: "aged members of the society"
- Example: "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"
- Example: "senior citizen"
[syn: aged, elderly, older, senior]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Senior \Sen"ior\, a. [L. senior, compar. of senex, gen. senis, old. See Sir.] 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Senior \Sen"ior\, n. 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

senior adj 1: older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer" [ant: junior] 2: used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college; "the senior prom" [syn: senior(a), fourth-year] 3: 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" [syn: aged, elderly, older, senior] n 1: an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation 2: a person who is older than you are [syn: elder, senior]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

117 Moby Thesaurus words for "senior": A per se, absolute, ace, ancient, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, better, boss, brass hat, cadet, champion, chief, ci-devant, clothed with authority, commander, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, dean, dominant, doyen, doyenne, duly constituted, earlier, early, elder, eldest, eminent, empowered, ex officio, father, first, first-born, firstling, fore, foregoing, former, freshman, fugleman, genius, golden-ager, governing, great, head, hegemonic, hegemonistic, high priest, higher-up, imperative, important, important person, influential, junior, kingfish, kingpin, laureate, leader, leading, major, master, midshipman, mighty, momentous, monocratic, nonpareil, official, old-timer, older, oldest, paragon, personage, plebe, potent, powerful, preceding, precurrent, preeminent, preexistent, prestigious, previous, prime, primogenitary, principal, prior, prodigy, prominent, puissant, ranking, ruler, ruling, senior citizen, sire, soph, sophomore, star, substantial, superior, superman, superstar, supreme, the greatest, the most, top dog, totalitarian, undergrad, undergraduate, upperclassman, virtuoso, weighty
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

SENIOR. The elder. This addition is sometimes made to a man's name, when two persons bear the same, in order to distinguish them. In practice when nothing is mentioned, the senior is intended. 3 Miss. R. 59. See Junior.