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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Senior \Sen"ior\, adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Senior \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 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
senior
adjective
1: older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer" [ant: {junior}]
2: used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college; "the senior prom" [syn: {senior(a)}, {fourth-year}]
3: advanced in years; ('aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: {aged}, {elderly}, {older}]
noun
1: an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation
2: a person who is older than you are [syn: {elder}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "senior": A per se, absolute, ace, ancient, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, better, boss, brass hat, cadet, champion, chief, ci-devant, clothed with authority, commander, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, dean, dominant, doyen, doyenne, duly constituted, earlier, early, elder, eldest, eminent, empowered, ex officio, father, first, first-born, firstling, fore, foregoing, former, freshman, fugleman, genius, golden-ager, governing, great, head, hegemonic, hegemonistic, high priest, higher-up, imperative, important, important person, influential, junior, kingfish, kingpin, laureate, leader, leading, major, master, midshipman, mighty, momentous, monocratic, nonpareil, official, old-timer, older, oldest, paragon, personage, plebe, potent, powerful, preceding, precurrent, preeminent, preexistent, prestigious, previous, prime, primogenitary, principal, prior, prodigy, prominent, puissant, ranking, ruler, ruling, senior citizen, sire, soph, sophomore, star, substantial, superior, superman, superstar, supreme, the greatest, the most, top dog, totalitarian, undergrad, undergraduate, upperclassman, virtuoso, weighty
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