Sen"ior (?), a. [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.
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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.
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