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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]
(noun)
1: an undergraduate student during the year preceding
graduation
2: a person who is older than you are [syn: elder]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
2. Belonging to the final year of the regular course in
American colleges, or in professional schools.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Senior : \Sen"ior\, n.
1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in
life.
2. One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was
anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
3. An aged person; an older. --Dryden.
Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the
lovely caravan. --Emerson.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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, theSenior : is intended. 3 Miss. R. 59. See Junior.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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