senior
['si:njә]
n. 者, 资深者, 毕班

a. , , 资深

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senior
[ noun ]

1. an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

<noun.person>

2. a person who is older than you are

<noun.person>

[ adj ]

1. older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service

<adj.all>
senior officer

2. used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college

<adj.all>
the senior prom

3. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

<adj.all>
aged members of the society
elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper
senior citizen

Senior \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.


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.