senior

senior

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English

Alternative forms

  • seniour (obsolete)

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.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsinjɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsiːnjə(r)/
  • Hyphenation: se‧nior

Adjective

senior (comparative more senior, superlative most senior)

  1. Older.
  2. Higher in rank, dignity, or office; superior.
  3. (US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

  • junior

Related terms

  • senile
  • senate
  • sir

Translations

Noun

senior (plural seniors)

  1. (now chiefly US) An old person.
    Synonyms: senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person
  2. Someone older than someone else (with possessive). [from 15th c.]
  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.]
  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.]

Antonyms

  • junior

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • “senior”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “senior”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin senior. Doublet of sinjeur and sinjoor.

Pronunciation

Noun

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.

Usage notes

  • 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".

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: senior

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /se.njɔʁ/

Noun

senior m (plural seniors)

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

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sɛˈniɔr]
  • Hyphenation: sè‧ni‧or
  • Rhymes: -ɔr

Adjective

senior

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

Synonyms

  • (in rank) kanan (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “senior” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senior.

Adjective

senior (comparative plus senior, superlative le plus senior)

  1. older

Noun

senior (plural seniors)

  1. lord

Latin

Etymology

Comparative of senex.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈse.ni.or/, [ˈs̠ɛniɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ni.or/, [ˈsɛːnior]

Adjective

senior (comparative, neuter senius); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Noun

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

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

Anagrams

  • īnserō
  • oriēns

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin senior.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ɲɔr/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɲɔr
  • Syllabification: se‧nior

Noun

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

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • senior in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • senior in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • senior in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French senior, itself borrowed from Latin senior.

Adjective

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

  1. senior

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of señor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

senior m (plural seniores)

  1. senior (clarification of this definition is needed)

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