[
US
/ˈsinjɝ/
]
[ UK /sˈiːnjɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈiːnjɐ/ ]
NOUN
- an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation
- a person who is older than you are
ADJECTIVE
-
older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service
senior officer -
advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper
aged members of the society
senior citizen -
used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college
the senior prom
How To Use senior In A Sentence
- Based on age, the children are divided into the primary, intermediate, junior and senior levels.
- By May of 1999, the foundation offered two scholarship programs and intensive SAT tutoring for high school juniors and seniors.
- I concede that seniority should not be the sole criterion.
- She now holds a senior post in the Department of Education.
- He had a bank balance that a senior merchant banker would not be ashamed of.
- A senior detective who led the hunt for two armed robbers behind a series of terrifying raids across Bradford today told of the desperate race against time to catch them before someone was shot.
- The two other witnesses interviewed are a former senior council official and a former lord mayor of Leicester. Times, Sunday Times
- Does anybody see the contradiction is the Lefts attack on seniors who use Medicare? Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
- Information is also readily available to aid senior management in decision making.
- The present answer to that question is that a company's mind is the mind of its senior officers.