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ˈsiːnɪə,
ˈsiːnjə/
adj.
- for or denoting older people.
▸Brit. for or denoting schoolchildren above a certain age, typically eleven.
▸US of the final year at a university or high school.
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[postpos.]
denoting the elder of two with the same name in a family.
- high or higher in rank or status.
n.
- a person who is a specified number of years older than someone else:
she was two years his senior.
- a student in one of the higher forms of a senior school.
- (in sport) a competitor of above a certain age or of the highest status.
- an elderly person, especially an old-age pensioner.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from L., lit. ‘older, older man’, compar. of senex, sen- ‘old man, old’.