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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#m1)

2) Higher in rank or position (a senior manager). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#m2)

3) (noun) A person who is older than another («she is my senior by two years»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#m3)

4) (noun, US, Canada) A student in the final year of high school or university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#m4)

5) (noun) An older person, often retired (discounts for seniors). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#m5)

6) (sport, UK, Ireland, Australia) For adults or the top level (the senior team). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#m6)

7) «Senior» (Sr) after a name: the father with the same name as his son. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#m7)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#x1)
- My brother is a senior in high school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#x2)
- She is a senior teacher at our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#x3)
- He plays for the senior football team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#x4)
- Tickets cost 10 dollars for adults and 6 dollars for seniors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#x5)
- Mr Jones Senior and Mr Jones Junior. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#x6)
- She is two years my senior. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/10/)
- ["Senior citizen" is the official term for an old person, often over 60 or 65.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/15/)
- ["A senior moment" is a joking name for a moment of forgetting, blamed on getting old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/7/)
- [Bishops are senior leaders who look after many churches in an area called a diocese.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church/15/)
- [The Church of England is led by bishops, with the Archbishop of Canterbury as senior bishop and the King as Supreme Governor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «senior» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/senior/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.