senior

• seniour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsinjɚ/

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senior (comparative more senior, superlative most senior)

1. Older; superior

   senior citizen

2. Higher in rank, dignity, or office.

   senior member; senior counsel

3. (US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.

• junior

• senile
• senate
• sir

senior (plural seniors)

1. (chiefly US) An old person.
2. Someone older than someone else (with possessive). [from 15th c.]

   He was four years her senior.

3. Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age. [from 14th c.]
4. (obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church. [14th-16th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts IV:

     Then Peter full of the holy goost sayd unto them. Ye ruelars of the people, and seniours of israhel [...].

5. Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
6. (US) A final-year student at a high school or university. [from 17th c.]

• junior

• senior in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• senior in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Nerios, Serino, irones, nories, nosier, rosein

Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of sire, seigneur, and sieur.

• IPA^(key): /se.njɔʁ/

senior m (plural seniors)

1. (sports) senior (older player)
2. elderly person

Borrowed from Latin senior.

senior (comparative plus senior, superlative le plus senior)

1. older

senior (plural seniors)

1. lord

Comparative of senex.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.or/, [ˈsɛ.ni.ɔr]

senior (neuter senius); third declension

1. older, elder; rather old

   Antonym: iūnior

Third declension, comparative variant

senior m (genitive seniōris); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a lord

   Coordinate term: seniorissa

2. (Medieval Latin) an abbot
3. (Medieval Latin) a husband

Third declension.

• senior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• senior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• senior in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• senior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• senior in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from Latin senior (“older”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɲɔr/

senior m pers

1. elder (older person)

Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of señor.

• IPA^(key): /seˈnjoɾ/

senior m (plural seniores)

1. senior