Senior
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English
Adjective
Senior (comparative more Senior, superlative most Senior)
- Older; superior
- Higher in rank within a publicly traded company or other organization.
- of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school or university.
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Noun
Senior (plural Seniors)- an older person
- four years her senior
- a final-year student at a high school or university.
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Thesaurus
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
Etymology
< Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate.
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External links
- Senior in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Senior in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Interlingua
Adjective
Senior (comparative plus Senior, superlative le plus Senior)
Noun
Senior (plural Seniors)Etymology
From Latin senior
Latin
Adjective
Senior (comparative of senex)
Inflection
- Third declension, comparative variation (3:COM).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case \ Gender | M.F. | N. | MM.FF. | NN. | |
| nominative | senior | senius | seniōrēs | seniōra | |
| genitive | seniōris | seniōris | seniōrum | seniōrum | |
| dative | seniōrī | seniōrī | seniōribus | seniōribus | |
| accusative | seniōrem | senius | seniōrēs | seniōra | |
| ablative | seniōre | seniōre | seniōribus | seniōribus | |
| vocative | senior | senius | seniōrēs | seniōra | |
