| Library / English Dictionary |
SENIOR
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is older than you are
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("senior" is a kind of...):
adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "senior"):
dean; doyen (a man who is the senior member of a group)
doyenne (a woman who is the senior member of a group)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("senior" is a kind of...):
undergrad; undergraduate (a university student who has not yet received a first degree)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college
Example:
the senior prom
Synonyms:
fourth-year; senior
Classified under:
Similar:
last (coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Advanced in years; ('aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
Example:
senior citizen
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)
Derivation:
seniority (the property of being long-lived)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service
Example:
senior officer
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
elder; older; sr. (used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son)
major (of the elder of two boys with the same family name)
precedential (having precedence (especially because of longer service))
higher-ranking; ranking; superior (having a higher rank)
Also:
old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)
Attribute:
higher rank; higher status; senior status; seniority (higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service)
Antonym:
junior (younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service)
Derivation:
seniority (higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service)
Context examples:
“Ever wonder why we forget many of our dreams?” said Thomas Kilduff, Ph.D., director of the Center for Neuroscience at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, and a senior author of the study.
(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)
André Vandervorst, Université Catholique de Louvain, senior professor and author of several books on the issue.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
Two and thirty of the seniors and fifteen of the novices, most holy father.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Truth is truth, and the noise of a number of foolish young men—and, I fear I must add, of their equally foolish seniors—cannot affect the matter.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Before this boy, who was reputed to be a great scholar, and was very good-looking, and at least half-a-dozen years my senior, I was carried as before a magistrate.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Our results suggest that astrocytes actively help control the rhythm of breathing, said Jeffrey C. Smith, Ph.D., senior investigator at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)
“Prescribing patterns for diuretics vary among hospitals,” said Anne Zajicek, M.D., Pharm. D., the study’s senior author.
(Diuretic therapy for extremely preterm infants does not alleviate respiratory problems, National Institutes of Health)
Only Jackson, Belcher, Mendoza, and one or two others of the senior and more famous men remained silent, thinking it beneath their dignity that they should condescend to so irregular a bye-battle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The maidservant of Mrs. Rushworth, senior, threatened alarmingly.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Daytime supervision, which may include recreational or medical facilities, for children, seniors, or people needing special assistance.
(Daycare, NCI Thesaurus)
