senior

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Older.

   senior citizen

2. 2
   adj

   Higher in rank, dignity, or office; superior.

   senior member; senior counsel

3. 3
   adj

   Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players above a certain age or level of experience.

   senior hockey

4. 4
   noun

   An old person.

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   Someone older than someone else (with possessive).

   He was four years her senior.

6. 6
   noun

   An elder or presbyter in the early Church.

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

7. 7
   adj

   used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college

8. 8
   adj

   advanced in years

Etymology

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.