Category:Senior

Sen"ior, a. Etym: [l. senior, compar. of senex, gen. senis, old. See Sir.]

1. More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, More advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior Member; senior counsel.

2. Belonging to the final year of the regular course in american Colleges, or in professional schools.

Senior Sen"ior, n.

1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

2. One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to That of another; one prior in grade.

3. An aged person; an older. Dryden. Each village senior paused to scan, and speak the lovely caravan. Emerson.

4. One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in The last year of the course at a professional schools or at a Seminary.