Senior /(?)/

Sen·ior

Senior

a.
  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

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.
    Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan.
  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.