senior

English

Alternative forms

• seniour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, signore, sir, and sire.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsinjɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːnjə(r)/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: se‧nior

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• (older): geriatric, long in the tooth, on in years; see also Thesaurus:elderly

Antonyms

• junior

Related terms

• senile
• senate
• sir

Translations

Noun

senior (plural seniors)

1. (now chiefly US) An old person.

   Synonyms: senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Question!’”, in The Lost World , London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 77:

     Grave and reverend seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as badly as the students, and I saw white-bearded men rising and shaking their fists at the obdurate Professor.

2. Someone older than someone else (with possessive).

   He was four years her senior.

3. Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
4. (obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt  (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts :[8], folio clviij, recto:

     Then Peter full of the holy gooſt ſayd vnto them. Ye ruelars of the people / and ſeniours of iſrahel […].

5. Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
6. (US, Philippines) A final-year student at a high school or university.

Antonyms

• junior

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.njɔʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

senior m (plural seniors)

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

Further reading

• “senior”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

senior

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Dutch senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”). Doublet of senyur and sinyo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sè‧ni‧or

Adjective

senior

1. senior
   1. older; superior
   2. higher in rank, dignity, or office.

Synonyms

• (in rank) kanan (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “senior” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senior.

Adjective

senior (comparative plus senior, superlative le plus senior)

1. older

Noun

senior (plural seniors)

1. lord

Latin

Etymology

Comparative of senex.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.or/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.or/,

Adjective

senior (neuter senius); third declension

1. comparative degree of senex
   1. older, elder; rather old

      Antonym: iūnior

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Noun

senior m (genitive seniōris); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a lord, sir

   Coordinate term: seniorissa

2. (Medieval Latin) an abbot
3. (Medieval Latin) a husband
4. old person, old man, older person, older man

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• senior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• senior in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Anagrams

• īnserō
• oriēns

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

senior

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin senior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɲɔr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɲɔr
• Syllabification: se‧nior

Noun

senior m pers (female equivalent seniorka)

1. doyen, senior (oldest member of the family by age)

   Synonym: nestor

   Antonym: junior

2. doyen, elder, senior (eldest or most experienced member of a group)

   Synonyms: nestor, patriarcha

3. senior (athlete of adult age according to the regulations of a given sport discipline)

   Antonym: junior

   Hypernym: sportowiec

Noun

senior m pers

1. Sr. (title used after a father's name when his son is given the same name)

   Antonym: junior

2. (feudalism, historical) feudal lord exercising power and guardianship over his subordinate vassal

   Antonym: wasal

   Hypernyms: feudał, zwierzchnik

3. (historical) during the period of the division of Poland into districts, the oldest of the Piasts who exercised supreme power and to whom the other princes ruling the various districts were subordinate

   Hypernym: zwierzchnik

4. (Protestantism) senior (senior Protestant clergyman)

   Hypernym: duchowny

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• senior in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• senior in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French senior, itself borrowed from Latin senior.

Adjective

senior m or n (feminine singular senioră, masculine plural seniori, feminine and neuter plural seniore)

1. senior

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of señor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈnjoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: se‧nior

Noun

senior m (plural seniores)

1. senior (clarification of this definition is needed)