senior

• seniour (obsolete)

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

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

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• Hyphenation: se‧nior

senior (comparative more senior, superlative most senior)

1. Older.

   senior citizen

2. Higher in rank, dignity, or office; superior.

   senior member; senior counsel

3. (US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
4. (sports, US, Canada) Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players above a certain age or level of experience.

   senior hockey

5. (card games) Synonym of elder.
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:

     It is unusual for the senior hand to leave even one of the five cards to which he is entitled. It indicated an unusually strong hand.

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

• junior

• senile
• senate
• sir

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). [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, 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; a finalist. [from 17th c.]

• junior

• “senior”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “senior”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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

From Latin senior. Doublet of señor, sinjeur, sinjo, and sinjoor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ni.ɔr/

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• Hyphenation: se‧ni‧or

senior m (plural senioren or seniors, diminutive senioortje n)

1. elderly person, senior citizen

   Voor senioren kan een e-bike zowel handig als gevaarlijk zijn. ― An e-bike can be both useful and dangerous to senior citizens.

2. senior (higher-ranked person, for example in job titles)

   Bij sommige bedrijven word je al na een jaar of vijf als senior gezien. ― At some companies you are regarded as a senior [employee] after as few as five years.

• The plural in -en is generally used for the sense "senior citizen", whereas the plural in -s is used for the sense "higher-ranked person".

• → Indonesian: senior

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

• IPA^(key): /se.njɔʁ/

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senior m (plural seniors)

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

• “senior”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /seˈniɔr/ [seˈni.ɔr]
• Syllabification: se‧nior

senior

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

   Synonym: kanan (Malaysian Malay)

senior (plural senior-senior or para senior)

1. senior
2. upperclassman

   Synonyms: abang liting, kakak kelas, kakak liting, kakak tingkat

• “senior”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Latin senior.

senior (comparative plus senior, superlative le plus senior)

1. older

senior (plural seniors)

1. lord

Comparative of senex. Compare Old Irish siniu, Vedic Sanskrit सन्यस् (sányas).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛ.ni.ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.ni.or]

senior (comparative, neuter senius); third declension

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

      Antonym: iūnior

Third-declension comparative adjective.

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

Third-declension noun.

• “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, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• īnserō
• oriēns

Learned borrowing from Latin senior.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɲɔr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɲɔr
• Syllabification: se‧nior

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

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

• “senior”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “senior”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• senior in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from French senior, itself borrowed from Latin senior.

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

1. senior

Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of señor.

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

senior m (plural seniores)

1. (dated or obsolete) Courtesy vocative used before someone's name, surname or title

   Synonym: señor

Unadapted borrowing from English senior.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsinjoɾ/ [ˈsi.njoɾ]
• Rhymes: -injoɾ

senior m or f (masculine and feminine plural seniors)

1. alternative form of sénior

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “senior”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Borrowed from Latin senior.

senior (comparative mer senior, superlative mest senior)

1. senior

senior c

1. (sports) senior (athlete competing in ordinary category for adults)

   Antonyms: junior, oldboy

2. elderly person, senior citizen

• “senior”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)