Definitions for Senior

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Senior sen·ior

Spelling: [seen-yer]

IPA: /ˈsin yər/

Senior is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in Senior (einors).

Definitions for Senior

noun

1. a person who is older than another.
2. a person of higher rank or standing than another, especially by virtue of longer service.
3. (in the U.S.) a student in the final year at a high school, preparatory school, college, or university.
4. a fellow holding senior rank in a college at an English university.
5. a senior citizen.
6. (initial capital letter) a member of the Girl Scouts from 14 through 17 years of age.

adjective

1. older or elder (designating the older of two men bearing the same name, as a father whose son is named after him, often written as Sr. or sr. following the name): Compare junior (def 1).
2. of earlier appointment or admission, as to an office, status, or rank:
3. of higher or the highest rank or standing.
4. (in American schools, colleges, and universities) of or relating to students in their final year or to their class.
5. (in certain American colleges and universities) of or relating to the final two years of education, during which a student specializes in a certain field of study.
6. of, for, or pertaining to a senior citizen or senior citizens as a group:
7. of earlier date; prior to:
8. Finance. having a claim on payments, assets, dividends, or the like prior to other creditors, mortgages, stockholders, etc.

Origin of Senior

1350-1400; Middle English Latin, equivalent to sen(ex) old, old man + -ior comparative adj. suffix

Examples for Senior

Stanley Richards, senior Vice President of the Fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.

Also Ben Lockwood attended—Blinky's first cousin and senior.

E.J. Graff, senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, is the author of What Is Marriage For?

The senior partner was regarding the rebel with grave-eyed reproach.

A senior Iranian official in Pakistan later confirmed the strike took place, declining to elaborate.

“Clean as a whistle,” says a senior investigator involved in the case.

So unusual a state of affairs was noticed by the senior boy.

Adam Thierer is a senior research fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Even Miss Grange, now reduced to second place, remonstrated with her senior.

Two or three probationers had been sent to help cleanup, and a senior nurse.