The senior people in an organization or profession have the highest and most important jobs.
...senior officials in the Israeli government.
...the company's senior management.
Television and radio needed many more women in senior jobs.
Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior More Synonyms of senior
2. adjective
If someone is seniorto you in an organization or profession, they have a higher and more important job than you or they are considered to be superior to you because they have worked there for longer and have more experience.
The position had to be filled by an officer senior to Haig. [+ to]
Williams felt himself to be senior to all of them.
Synonyms: superior, better More Synonyms of senior
Your seniors are the people who are senior to you.
He was described by his seniors as a model officer.
3. singular noun
Senior is used when indicating how much older one person is than another. For example, if someone is ten years your senior, they are ten years older than you.
She became involved with a married man many years her senior.
4. countable noun
Seniors are students in a high school, university, or college who are the oldest and whohave reached an advanced level in their studies.
[US]
5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
If you take part in a sport at senior level, you take part in competitions with adults and people who have reached a high degree of achievement in that sport.
This will be his fifth international championship and his third at senior level.
6. countable noun
In sports such as golf and tennis, a senior is a professional player who is fairly old and who plays in special competitions against other older players.
More Synonyms of senior
senior in British English
(ˈsiːnjə)
adjective
1.
higher in rank or length of service
2.
older in years
senior citizens
3.
of or relating to adulthood, maturity, or old age
senior privileges
4. education
a.
of, relating to, or designating more advanced or older pupils
b.
of or relating to a secondary school
5. US
of, relating to, or designating students in the fourth and final year at college
noun
6.
a senior person
7.
an elderly person
8.
a.
a senior pupil, student, etc
b.
a fellow of senior rank in an English university
Word origin
C14: from Latin: older, from senex old
Senior in British English
(ˈsiːnjə)
adjective
mainly US
being the older: used to distinguish the father from the son with the same first name or names
Charles Parker, Senior
Abbreviation: Sr, Sen
senior in American English
(ˈsinjər)
adjective
1.
of the greater age; older
written Sr. after the name of a father whose son has been given exactly the same name see also junior
2.
of higher rank or standing, or longer in service
3. US
of or for seniors in a high school or college
4.
of or for senior citizens
senior athletes, a senior center
noun
5.
a person older than another or others
6.
a person of greater rank, standing, or length of service
7. US
a student in the last year of college or the twelfth grade in high school
8.
senior citizen
Idioms:
one's senior
Word origin
ME < L senior, compar. of senex, old: see senate
Examples of 'senior' in a sentence
senior
This programme offers places to ten senior officers from the partnership.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
That has enraged some very senior people in the industry.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Now many doctors from much more senior ranks seem to be joining them at the exit.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Yet it is not only the senior players.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
My youngest son should hopefully be a senior in college.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Why is it then that so few women attain senior management positions?
Harris, Jean Everything You Need to Know for Success in Business (1990)
To hand to a rival the third most senior job in government would appear to exude confidence.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The new issue hurts the original bondholders by increasing the ratio of senior debt to company value.
Charles A. D'Ambrosio & Stewart D. Hodges & Richard Brealey & Stewart Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (1991)
The senior two were acquitted and the third received only a token punishment.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Our senior ones already know how to.
The Sun (2012)
This is a good place for a senior man to end a distinguished career.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
The same thing happened during pottery class at senior school.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Perhaps too many senior ministers have been focusing on leadership ambitions?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Emerald is basically three senior guys.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In 1974 she was appointed senior research fellow in the department of medicine.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Members must usually have a minimum of five years' senior management experience.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The claim was rubbished by a senior Government source.
The Sun (2016)
Get to know your senior pastor: take some cues from courting.
Christianity Today (2000)
In other languages
senior
British English: senior /ˈsiːnjə/ ADJECTIVE
The senior people in an organization have the highest and most important jobs in it.
...senior officials in the government.
American English: senior
Arabic: أَكْبَر
Brazilian Portuguese: sênior
Chinese: 高级的
Croatian: stariji
Czech: nadřízený
Danish: ledende
Dutch: senior
European Spanish: superior cargo
Finnish: vanhempi johonkuhun verrattuna
French: ancien hiérarchie
German: dienstälter
Greek: πρεσβύτερος
Italian: superiore
Japanese: 先輩の
Korean: 연상의
Norwegian: eldre
Polish: starszy
European Portuguese: sénior
Romanian: persoană importantă
Russian: старший
Latin American Spanish: superior persona que tiene otras a su cargo
Swedish: äldre
Thai: ผู้อาวุโส
Turkish: üst rütbe
Ukrainian: старший
Vietnamese: lớn già hơn
All related terms of 'senior'
senior prom
a formal dance or gathering of high school students held at the end of the senior year
senior year
(in the US) the fourth year or 12th grade of a student's high school period
one's senior
a person older than oneself
senior airman
a noncommissioned rank in the U.S. Air Force that is above airman first class and below staff sergeant .
senior airmen
a noncommissioned rank in the U.S. Air Force that is above airman first class and below staff sergeant .
senior clerk
a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
senior doctor
A doctor is someone who is qualified in medicine and treats people who are ill.
senior editor
an editor in a senior position, who supervises and coordinates the editorial activities of a publication , such as a newspaper
senior lawyer
A lawyer is a person who is qualified to advise people about the law and represent them in court.
senior master
a male teacher in a senior position
senior moment
a lapse of memory common in elderly people
senior nurse
A nurse is a person whose job is to care for people who are ill .
senior pastor
A pastor is a member of the Christian clergy in some Protestant churches.
senior school
a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
senior staff
The staff of an organization are the people who work for it.
senior citizen
A senior citizen is an older person who has retired or receives an old age pension .
senior employee
An employee is a person who is paid to work for an organization or for another person.
senior manager
A manager is a person who is responsible for running part of or the whole of a business organization.
senior partner
a partner in a highly ranked position in a firm
senior position
A position in a company or organization is a job .
senior service
the Royal Navy
senior wrangler
(at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos and got the highest marks
senior aircraftman
a rank in the Royal Air Force comparable to that of a private in the army , though not the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force
senior aircraftmen
a rank in the Royal Air Force comparable to that of a private in the army , though not the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force
senior consultant
A consultant is an experienced doctor with a high position, who specializes in one area of medicine.
senior executive
someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
senior management
the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
senior aircraftwoman
a rank in the Royal Air Force comparable to that of a private in the army , though not the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force
senior aircraftwomen
a rank in the Royal Air Force comparable to that of a private in the army , though not the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force
senior common room
(in British universities, colleges , etc) a common room for the use of academic staff
senior high school
(in the US) a school for young people between the ages of 14 and 18
senior master sergeant
a noncommissioned officer of the eighth grade , ranking above master sergeant and below chief master sergeant
senior chief petty officer
a noncommissioned officer ranking above a chief petty officer and below a master chief petty officer
upper management
the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
Chinese translation of 'senior'
senior
(ˈsiːnɪəʳ)
adj
[staff, manager, officer]高级(級)的 (gāojí de)
[job, position]上级(級)的 (shàngjí de)
to be senior to sb, be sb's senior (in company) 是某人的上级(級) (shì mǒurén de shàngjí)
she is 15 years his senior她比他年长(長)15岁(歲) (tā bǐ tā niánzhǎng shíwǔ suì)