senioradjective
uk/ˈsiː.ni.ər/us/ˈsiː.njɚ/senior adjective (HIGH RANK)
B2 high or higher in rank:
older and more experienced than the other members of a team:
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- a senior government aide
- Two senior officials have been entrusted with organizing the auction.
- The president was flanked by senior ministers.
- Criticism has been levelled at senior figures in the industry.
- She's just been promoted to senior sales rep.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Organizations - position & status
- a rung on/of the ladder idiom
- apparatchik
- associate
- back seat
- be a big fish in a small pond idiom
- betters 2
- brethren
- comrade
- echelon
- entry level
- entry-level
- equal
- fellow
- founder
- low-level
- position
- role
- second class
- standing
- subordinate
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senior adjective (OLDER)
B2 [ before noun ] older:
UK written abbreviation Snr, US written abbreviation Sr. used after a man's name to refer to the older of two people in the same family who have the same name:
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- This is the common room for senior pupils at the school.
- I'm hoping to speak to Al Jackson, senior.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Describing age & birthdays
- a ripe old age idiom
- age group
- age limit
- aged
- be knocking (on) 60, 70, etc. idiom
- gone
- junior
- nonagenarian
- octogenarian
- old
- on the right/wrong side of 40, 50, etc. idiom
- put years on sb idiom
- ripe
- spring chicken
- take years off sb idiom
- teens
- this side of sth idiom
- turn
- twenty-first
- when sb was a (mere) twinkle in their father's eye idiom
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Idiom(s)
seniornoun
uk/ˈsiː.ni.ər/us/ˈsiː.njɚ/senior noun (HIGH RANK)
[ C ] someone who is high or higher in rank:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Organizations - position & status
- a rung on/of the ladder idiom
- apparatchik
- associate
- back seat
- be a big fish in a small pond idiom
- betters 2
- brethren
- comrade
- echelon
- entry level
- entry-level
- equal
- fellow
- founder
- low-level
- position
- role
- second class
- standing
- subordinate
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senior noun (OLDER)
20, 30, etc. years older than someone:
[ C ] US UK senior citizen an old person:
[ C ] US a student in their final year of high school or university
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Describing age & birthdays
- a ripe old age idiom
- age group
- age limit
- aged
- be knocking (on) 60, 70, etc. idiom
- gone
- junior
- nonagenarian
- octogenarian
- old
- on the right/wrong side of 40, 50, etc. idiom
- put years on sb idiom
- ripe
- spring chicken
- take years off sb idiom
- teens
- this side of sth idiom
- turn
- twenty-first
- when sb was a (mere) twinkle in their father's eye idiom
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