seniors

Noun

senior (plural seniors)

1. (US) An old person.
   • Grave and reverend seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as badly as the students, and I saw white-bearded men rising and shaking their fists at the obdurate Professor.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Question!’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 77

   Synonyms:

   senior citizen, ager, antique, badge-cove, cheeser, coffin dodger, crinkly, eld, elder, elderly

2. Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
   • He was four years her senior.
3. Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
4. (obsolete) An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
   • Then Peter full of the holy gooſt ſayd vnto them. Ye ruelars of the people / and ſeniours of iſrahel[…].1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts :[8], folio clviij, recto
5. Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.

   Synonyms:

   elder

6. (Philippines, US) A final-year student at a high school or university; a finalist.

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