senior

Meanings

Adjective

• Older; superior
• Higher in rank, dignity, or office.
• Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.

Noun

• An old person.
• Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
• Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
• An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
• Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
• A final-year student at a high school or university.

Related

Opposite words

• junior

Origin

• From Middle English senior, from Latin senior ("older"), comparative form of senex; see senate. seigneur, , seignior, , sire, , sir, , and señor.