Synonyms for senior

Grammar : Adj, noun

Spell : seen-yer

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsin yər

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Définition of senior

Origin : late 13c., from Latin senior "older," comparative of senex (genitive senis) "old," from PIE root *sen- "old" (see senile). Original use in English was as an addition to a personal name indicating "the father" when father and son had the same name; meaning "higher in rank, longer in service" first recorded 1510s.
The Latin word yielded titles of respect in many languages, cf. French sire, Spanish señor, Portuguese senhor, Italian signor. Senior citizen first recorded 1938, American English.

adj older or of higher rank
noun older person

Example sentences :

Two or three probationers had been sent to help cleanup, and a senior nurse.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Even Miss Grange, now reduced to second place, remonstrated with her senior.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The senior partner was regarding the rebel with grave-eyed reproach.
Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling

Also Ben Lockwood attended—Blinky's first cousin and senior.
Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance

So unusual a state of affairs was noticed by the senior boy.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

I should like to have polished off that Pierce senior as he deserves.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

A senior boy, if he does his duty, should make every boy's cause his own, and 'feel' for him.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

Pierce senior set it afloat; that is, he and Mark Galloway together.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

In vain Mrs. Flipfield senior, opening her arms, exclaimed, ‘My Tom!’
Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens

Had it not been, the senior boy might have expected punishment from the head-master.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

Antonyms for senior

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