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adjective
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of earlier appointment or admission, as to an office, status, or rank: a senior partner.
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of higher or the highest rank or standing.
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(in American schools, colleges, and universities) of or pertaining to students in their final year or to their class.
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EXPAND(in certain American colleges and universities) of or pertaining to the final two years of education, during which a student specializes in a certain field of study.
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of, for, or pertaining to a senior citizen or senior citizens as a group: senior discounts on local bus fares.
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of earlier date; prior to: His appointment is senior to mine by a year.
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COLLAPSEFinance. having a claim on payments, assets, dividends, or the like prior to other creditors, mortgages, stockholders, etc.
noun
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a person who is older than another.
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a person of higher rank or standing than another, especially by virtue of longer service.
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(in the U.S.) a student in the final year at a high school, preparatory school, college, or university.
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a fellow holding senior rank in a college at an English university.
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COLLAPSE(initial capital letter) a member of the Girl Scouts from 14 through 17 years of age.
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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin, equivalent to sen(ex) old, old man + -ior comparative adj. suffix
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin, equivalent to sen(ex) old, old man + -ior comparative adj. suffix
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- Judging from the kingdom's past, such changes may come about amicably, through consensus among senior princes.
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- The senior princes and the country's clerics were split.
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Word Origin & History
senior
late 13c., from L. senior "older," comparative of senex (gen. senis) "old," from PIE base *sen- (see senile). Original use in English was as addition to a personal name when father and son had the same name; meaning "higher in rank, longer in service" first recorded 1510s.
EXPANDThe L. word yielded titles of respect in many languages, cf. Fr. sire, Sp. señor, It. signor. Noun sense of "fourth-year student" is from 1741, from earlier general sense of "advanced student" (1610s). Seniority "priority on office or service" is from mid-15c. Senior citizen first recorded 1938, Amer.Eng.
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