senior

«senior» in Mova's school dictionary: Older (a senior citizen) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (senior); noun (a senior, seniors)

meaning for a pupil

1) Older (a senior citizen). tree →

2) Higher in rank or position (a senior manager). tree →

3) (noun) A person who is older than another («she is my senior by two years»). tree →

4) (noun, US, Canada) A student in the final year of high school or university. tree →

5) (noun) An older person, often retired (discounts for seniors). tree →

6) (sport, UK, Ireland, Australia) For adults or the top level (the senior team). tree →

7) «Senior» (Sr) after a name: the father with the same name as his son. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, senior discounts and senior citizens; in school, seniors (US final-year pupils) and senior school (UK secondary school). In maths, ticket prices for seniors. Phrases: «senior citizen», «senior school», «senior to», «three years my senior».

examples

• Senior citizens get cheap bus tickets. tree →
• My brother is a senior in high school. tree →
• She is a senior teacher at our school. tree →
• He plays for the senior football team. tree →
• Tickets cost 10 dollars for adults and 6 dollars for seniors. tree →
• Mr Jones Senior and Mr Jones Junior. tree →
• She is two years my senior. tree →

note

Opposite: junior. «Senior TO», not «senior than». Noun «seniority» (being older or higher in rank). In maths: price for 2 adults and 2 seniors at 10 and 6 dollars = 2 × 10 + 2 × 6 = 32 dollars.

In the corpora

• A promotion is a move up to a more senior job in the same organisation, usually with more responsibility and more pay.
• "Senior citizen" is the official term for an old person, often over 60 or 65.
• "A senior moment" is a joking name for a moment of forgetting, blamed on getting old.
• Bishops are senior leaders who look after many churches in an area called a diocese.
• The Church of England is led by bishops, with the Archbishop of Canterbury as senior bishop and the King as Supreme Governor.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «senior» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.