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Meaning in simple English
US /ˈsiːnjɚ/ · UK /ˈsiːniə/
senior means: Having a higher position or greater responsibility in a job or group.
adjective
Having a higher position or greater responsibility in a job or group.
- Ask a senior member of staff.
- He became a senior manager last year.
- Several senior officers attended the meeting.
Older, especially at or beyond the usual age for stopping work.
- Senior citizens get cheaper tickets.
- The library offers classes for senior residents.
- Do you offer a senior discount?
Relating to the final year of school or university, or the upper years of high school.
- She is in her senior year.
- Our senior prom is in May.
- He teaches science at a senior high school.
For players above a particular age or experience level, rather than younger or less experienced players.
- He joined the senior team.
- She won her first senior championship last year.
- The club has separate junior and senior leagues.
noun
A student in the last year of high school, college, or university.
- My brother is a senior.
- The seniors are preparing for graduation.
- As a college senior, she began applying for jobs.
A person who is older than another person, or an older adult, usually aged 65 or more.
- Seniors get cheaper tickets.
- She is five years his senior.
- The center offers exercise classes for seniors.
Someone who has a higher position than another person in a job or group.
- Ask your senior for advice.
- He showed respect to his seniors.
- Although she is younger, she is my senior at work.
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