1. Abbr. Sr. Of or being the older of two, especially the older of two persons having the same name, as father and son.
2. Of or relating to senior citizens.
a. Being in a position, rank, or grade above others of the same set or class: a senior officer; the senior ship in the battle group.
b. Having precedence in making certain decisions.
4. Of or relating to the fourth and last year of high school or college: our senior class.
5. Relating to or being a class of corporate debt that has priority with respect to interest and principal over other classes of debt and equity by the same issuer.
a. A person who is older than another: She is eight years my senior.
a. One that is of a higher position, rank, or grade than another in the same set or class.
b. A student in the fourth year of high school or college.
Usage Note: The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of senior in the sense of "an older person" to the 15th century. In contemporary American English, however, this sense of senior is generally taken to be a shortening of the more recent senior citizen, and those who object to the compound may object to the shorter term as well. However, as the OED makes clear, senior has always evoked the positive qualities of aging, including wisdom, dignity, and superior position, and it is less likely to sound condescending than the obviously coined term senior citizen. In any case, there is often no clear alternative to senior other than constructions such as older person or older adult. See Usage Notes at elderly, old.
2. older in years: senior citizens.
3. of or relating to adulthood, maturity, or old age: senior privileges.
1. older or elder (typically identifying a father whose son is named after him; often abbreviated): John Doe, Sr.
2. of earlier election, appointment, or admission: the senior senator from New York.
3. of higher or the highest rank or standing.
4. of or pertaining to seniors in high school or college.
5. of, for, or pertaining to senior citizens.
6. having a claim on assets, dividends, or the like prior to other stockholders, creditors, etc.
7. a person who is older than another.
8. a person of higher rank or standing than another, esp. by virtue of longer service.
9. a student in the final year at a high school, college, or university.
10. a senior fellow at a college of an English university.
doyen, dean - a man who is the senior member of a group; "he is the dean of foreign correspondents"
Adj. 1. senior - older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer"
2. senior - used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college; "the senior prom"
3. senior - advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"
1. higher ranking, superior Television and radio needed many more women in senior jobs.
2. superior, better Williams felt himself to be senior to all of them.
Idiom: getting along in years.
ancient, elder, golden ager, senior citizen.
Although he only joined the firm last year he's senior to me already → Bien qu'il n'ait rejoint la compagnie que l'année dernière, il occupe déjà un poste plus élevé que moi.
He is the senior of the two → C'est l'aîné des deux.
She is 15 years his senior → Elle est de 15 ans son aînée.
older than but senior to.
He was so good and so anxious to learn, and flushed so pink, that his education was cut short, and he was left to his own devices by every one except the Senior Subaltern, who continued to make life a burden to The Worm.
The gentlemen he spoke of were the other senior partners of the firm; for, as was always the case with legal associations of old standing in New York, all the partners named on the office letter-head were long since dead; and Mr.
Ablewhite, senior, himself) for a loan of three hundred pounds.
It will be a cheap lesson if it teaches you to take nothing upon trust in business, and to insist upon knowing exactly what your partner is doing, however senior he may be to you.
One Sunday morning in June, 1879, about two weeks after what has been related, May senior left the house immediately after breakfast, taking a spade.
The senior artillery officer, a tall, long-legged, pockmarked man, moved over to Pierre as if to see the action of the farthest gun and looked at him with curiosity.
So he remained while the senior monks filed slowly and sedately into the chamber seating themselves upon the long oaken benches which lined the wall on either side.
Weller, senior, eyeing the stranger askance, as he mounted to his place.
Not a bit; the senior editor read it and thought it highly instructive; it appears in the next issue.
At present he ranks simply as senior Harpooneer; and as such, is but one of the captain's more inferior subalterns.
He is not the Emelia whom you know, but a man who, like myself, is a privy councillor, as well as represents, with myself, the senior and oldest official in our department.