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Senior   /sˈinjər/   Listen
adjective
Senior  adj.  
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.


noun
Senior  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. "Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan."
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.





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"Senior" Quotes from Famous Books



... certain. I am off in Dublin immediately she comes in and expect I may be back to-night. This of course depends a good deal upon what de Robeck wants. Captain Boyle brings this and will be at your disposal. He is the Senior Naval ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... walk led to Anne Hathaway's home in Shottery. She was nearly eight years his senior, but in 1582 at the age of eighteen ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... at Edinburgh University, and as a budding engineer, he has chronicled; he took part in snowball rows, in the debates of the Speculative Society, and in private dramatic performances, organized by his senior and friend, Professor Fleeming Jenkin. To "dress up" in old costumes always pleased him. He happened to praise the acting of a girl of fourteen, who, in her family circle, said, "Perhaps when I am old, like the lady in Ronsard, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... slept for what he felt was a day and a night. It was really ten minutes by the hunting-case watch. Just long enough for the Senior Surgical Interne, known in the school as the S.S.I., to wander in, feel his pulse, approve of Jane Brown, ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... man," remonstrated the senior severely, "think what you say; 'tis ill jesting with the man of art who brings his grey hairs and long study to heal you. A bear, quotha! Had you dissected as many bears as I, or the tithe, and drawn their teeth to keep your hand in, you would know that no bear's jaw ever made ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade


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