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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Senior

Sēn'ior, a.

adjective

(seen'yur) (Synop., § 130), a. [Lat. senior, comp. of senex, senis, old.]

  1. More advanced in age, or in office or dignity; prior in age or rank; elder.
  2. Belonging to the fourth year of the collegiate course in American colleges, or the third year in professional schools.

Sēn'ior, n.

noun

(seen'yur), n. 1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

  1. One older in office, or whose first entrance upon an office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade or rank.
  2. An aged person; one of the oldest inhabitants.

A senior of the place replies. Dryden. 4. One in the fourth year of his collegiate course at an American college;—originally called senior sophister; also, one in the third year of his course at a professional school.