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Webster 1913 Edition
Senior
1.
More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior;
as,
. senior
member; senior
counsel2.
Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
Sen′ior
,Noun.
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
And speak the lovely caravan.
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. Webster 1828 Edition
Senior
SENIOR
,Adj.
SENIOR
,Noun.
1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
2. One that is older in office, or one whose first entrance upon an office was anterior to that of another. Thus a senator or counselor of sixty years of age, often has a senior who is not fifty years of age.
3. An aged person; one of the oldest inhabitants.
A senior of the place replies. Dryden.