Word Meanings - SENIOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: SENIOR

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SENIOR)

• Elder
• Senior
• father

Related words: (words related to SENIOR)

• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• SENIORIZE
  To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it. Fairfax.
• SENIORITY
  The quality or state of being senior.
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• ELDERBERRY
  The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder and that of the American sweet elder are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wine.
• ELDER
  1. Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett 2. Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now
• ELDERN
  Made of elder. He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• FATHER
  OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• FATHERLESS
  1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. 2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.
• FATHERLY
  1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to a father.
• SENIOR
  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
• ELDERWORT
  Danewort.
• FATHER LONGLEGS
  See 2
• ELDERISH
  Somewhat old; elderly.
• SENIORY
  Seniority. Shak.
• FATHERLINESS
  The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
• ELDERSHIP
  1. The state of being older; seniority. "Paternity an eldership." Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• DISELDER
  To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. Fuller.
• GELDER
  One who gelds or castrates.
• GODFATHER
  A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• FOREFATHER
  One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day on
• STEPFATHER
  The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.