senior

1. 1.

   an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

   Broaderundergraduate
2. 2.

   a person who is older than you are

   Synonymselder

   Broaderadult

   Narrowerdeandoyenne

Other forms of senior

plural

seniors·

comparative

seniorer·

superlative

seniorest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about senior

What does senior mean?

senior means "older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in senior?

senior has 2 syllables: se-nior. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /ˈsinjɚ/.

What is another word for senior?

Close synonyms include fourth-year, aged, elderly, older, elder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of senior?

The recorded antonyms are junior.

Is senior a common word?

senior is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with senior?

2 words rhyme with senior. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.